[manigandham]

Are major clouds actually facing any real competition because of bandwidth pricing?

On another note, Softlayer used to have generous multiple TB allocations for their dedicated servers but they took them away. It's likely that anyone needing high bandwidth, especially for static content, will have other edge networks and CDNs in place for that use case.

[user5994461]

Of course not. They are not competing with Digital Ocean / Linode at all.

[jstapels]

If that's true, why did Amazon come out with Lightsail?

https://amazonlightsail.com

[deusex_]

That's just a card to be in the game, it's hardly their mainline product.

[needcheapbw]

My Lightsail gives me 3TB. It's a huge card for me. The only reason I use them at all for hosting.

[oblio]

Sorry to be blunt, but they don't really care that much about you. Sure, they want to take your money, they don't want to leave it on the table.

But most of their money comes from the Netflixes and the Adobes of the world, not from mom-and-pop stores :p

[needcheapbw]

:-) Well Bezos is a genius, perhaps he will figure out that mom and pop businesses are the backbone of the world economy.