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by softwarerocks 3904 days ago
All the innovation at AWS is amazing. If they every stop charging by the Gigabyte for bandwidth and move to a flat model then I would be tempted to switch to them for all my sites.
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Why would they do that? It makes sense to charge per gb. It gets people using them when they are small and its cheap to use S3/EC2 and then as they scale up its easier to just stick with AWS.
Peering links are charge on a consumed bandwidth basis (in a weird sliding scale fashion depending on your balance of egress vs ingress. The closer to 1:1 the better) rather than the fixed fee you pay your ISP.

I used to work for an ISP that would juggle which peering links the usenet servers were favouring to make things more favourable :D