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Comment by vbezhenar | Hacker News Reader

AWS charges $26 per day. Someone buys those.

What you pay for in AWS is access to the entire ecosystem, and cheap internal bandwidth to the rest of the AWS customers.

Scaleway offers neither. Their competition is Linode and Digital Ocean.

But at 72eur/month for M1, you could buy it in a year so it’s actually a reasonable price. Unlike AWS if all you need is compute.

> cheap internal bandwidth

This is vendor lockin that AWS put you in and now you mention like it's a pro.

It’s network effect, not vendor lock-in. If you are doing B2B, chances are good your peers are also in AWS, regardless of the lock-in effects of other Amazon services (which are real, and like any lock-in are always negative).

I am old enough to have collocates at Exodus in 2000 for the exact same reason: everyone I needed to work with collocates with them. (The later went bankrupt and became Savvis, no idea what they are called today or if they still exist)

Even if 90% of your peers are in Amazon, the egress fees on the other 10% cost more than sending all of your data over a competitively priced network connection.

And that's the best case, where all your connections to them start and end in the same availability zone. Just inter-AZ fees cost more than you'd normally pay for transit.

It's almost entirely lock-in.

network effect, literally.

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