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For commercial use, $45/month is a low enough cost to be noise for many businesses (even though the bandwidth transfer markup is eye watering). If it’s breaking your budget, you can always pull and then push to another registry (it’s just tarballs after all) or build new images from scratch with your Dockerfiles. Open source projects and similar cost sensitive use cases might consider https://github.com/miguelmota/ipdr

Docker Hub is similar to Youtube in the sense that it’s a whole lot of bandwidth and storage used and someone has to pay for it. Could you run your own? Time is expensive. Don’t unless you absolutely have to.

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$45/mo would be the minimum payment, assuming the free limit announced today actually lasted. Let's say they begin crying 12 months from now and knock it down even by 50%, now you're looking at $810 minimum per year per client site. Multiply that up by, say, 1000 sites, and you're starting to look at a "free" service that might completely pay for its own development within a year or two.

That has historically not been the direction AWS prices go, but as I mention in my other comment, it’s trivial to move if AWS tries to put you over a barrel. Object storage is a commodity, and Docker images are objects, so shrug. It would be cool if Cloudflare supported container registry primitives backed by user provided Backblaze B2 bucket config info, for example (maybe you can do this with workers?).

Properly parameterize your build/CI scripts (in this case, your container registry host and how to auth against it) for portability. Portability is your insurance against poor service provider behavior.

This sounds more like the Oracle model than AWS.

Or exactly what Docker just did if you squint a bit.

In which case, just move.

Sure, but say your engineers cost you $100/hr, and every hour beyond 2,000hrs per year they work, they become more unhappy.

I think it's worth spending the 8 hours/yr/site, supposing you have relatively few sites. Plus, your engineers for 1hr/month will never achieve the same SLAs that AMZN will.

For smallish numbers of sites, it seems like the AMZN solution is fine. For bigger ones, there is always enterprise pricing :-)

Does AWS raise prices like this (I know Oracle does - OUCH).

I've yet to be hit by one of these price increases and have been on AWS since the beginning. Until I migrated they supported my SimpleDB app FOREVER (I mean, it wasn't even on website at one point but the calls still worked!).

A small part of AWS success must be because of this confidence they will stick around, keep a service running.

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