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Comment by pier25 | Hacker News Reader

Why would they?

Cloudflare doesn't pay for egress and neither does AWS.

But their egress capacity is limited, not? We're talking about 1PB per month here. If every customer of them would be paying only 13 cents a month and pushing out 1PB per month, wouldn't they need to significantly upgrade their hardware and lose money in the process?

They are already serving roughly 20% of internet traffic as is so there is some natural limit to this whole thing.

Yup. Bandwidth at scale is effectively free.

The greatest trick AWS ever pulled was convincing the world you needed to pay for bandwidth.

Well you’ve won me over.

Just as an fyi, eastDakota is in Cloudflare’s executive team. Think he’s their CEO.

Not saying not to trust him - he’s probably a very reasonable and standup guy - but you should know this about him before taking his word on a topic like this.

No disrespect @eastDakota

"If every customer of them would be paying only 13 cents a month and pushing out 1PB per month, wouldn't they need to significantly upgrade their hardware and lose money in the process?"

Yes, but every customer would never do this, so what is your point?

You have to think more in terms of averages for things like this

> If every customer of them would be paying only 13 cents a month and pushing out 1PB per month...

Which is never going to happen for legitimate use cases.

And Cloudflare has DDOS protection for ilegitimate ones.

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