Does anyone know why bandwidth costs for both AWS and Google have remained flat while storage has rapidly approached .01 cents a gb?
Do they have fixed costs or is this one of the last ways they have to to make money on their platforms?
Do they have fixed costs or is this one of the last ways they have to to make money on their platforms?
Google's Network is a vast, secure, and performant Global SDN. This allows us to do some cool things. Therefore, Google has a fundamentally unique value proposition:
- Traffic between zones/regions at Google never leaves Google Network. Therefore, no need to setup VPC or VPN between zones/regions. Makes deployments much much simpler.
- Google Compute Engine is a VPC out of the box, even cross-region. You can carve out your own sub-VPCs easily using firewall rules.
- Traffic from Google to end-user is not being dumped off of Google network as soon as possible. Google carries your traffic as close to the end-user as possible.
Edit: take a look at this as well.. http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Insid...
Cloud Storage considers retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type which is priced at $0.01/10,000 ops. This is 1.3x-2.5x more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively. This is also not well documented and caused me some trouble. I didn't expect HTTP GET requests to be counted as XML API requests.
That + it being more expensive than cloudfront and s3 came as a rude shock :(
In general I find google cloud documentation and the service much better and more pleasant to work with than AWS but in this case it is not. Both S3 and Cloudfront have much clearer pricing (and positioning). In network pricing, both S3 & Cloudfront are significantly cheaper
“Networking is a red alert situation for us right now,” explained Hamilton. “The cost of networking is escalating relative to the cost of all other equipment. It is Anti-Moore. All of our gear is going down in cost, and we are dropping prices, and networking is going the wrong way. That is a super-big problem, and I like to look out a few years, and I am seeing that the size of the networking problem is getting worse constantly. At the same time that networking is going Anti-Moore, the ratio of networking to compute is going up.”
http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-s...