[nakodari]

I agree with Corey Quinn. This should be a wake-up call for the dominant players in this field. The high outbound bandwidth cost of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud makes no sense in 2020. I hope this causes AWS and others to reduce their outbound bandwidth and inbound accelerated transfer cost to at least half or more after watching Zoom migrate to Oracle.

[closeparen]

The cloud providers are optimized for the corporate datacenter use case: internal applications that talk to each other and employees. That stuff is harder to do with traditional web hosts, which are built around each server being exposed to the internet and until recently had no answer to VPC. The kinds of websites that could easily be hosted on the likes of Linode and DigitalOcean still ought to be.

[rhizome]

>traditional web hosts, which are built around each server being exposed to the internet and until recently had no answer to VPC

This is absolutely wrong unless you have rank n00bz leading your technology. This isn't even touching the implication that anything is harder to do outside of cloud hosting providers, it's just accounting for, well, the entire industry prior to, oh, let's say 10 years ago. It's not as prehistoric as it sounds, and in many (if not most) cases, the cloud providers are just slapping new trademarkable names on those classic architecture choices.

[closeparen]

Web hosts. There were of course other infrastructure providers that would support more complex architectures, but mostly of the “call us” variety.

[rhizome]

That is a distinction without a difference for me here, but the people have spoken regardless.

[jpalomaki]

Outbound fees also protect their computing business. They make it harder to take part of workloads to cheap providers such as Hetzner or OVH.

[nakodari]

Perhaps they can offer something like "Commit to using AWS for the next 5-10 years and get 80% discount on outbound bandwidth". Something like that would make a lot of sense for startups like ours. We want to stay with AWS but the rising cost is making it really difficult to grow faster. If we grow fast, AWS gets more business from us, it's a win-win situation.

[enitihas]

5-10 years is insanely long for a startup. Few startups even survive 10 years.

[nojito]

>The high outbound bandwidth cost of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud makes no sense in 2020.

It makes sense when they have revenue targets to reach.