[VectorLock]

It's weird to me how people think contrasting a raw pipe billed on 95th percentile to a service like S3 or Cloudflare is in any way a fair comparison.

[runlevel1]

S3 has its own data retrieval costs, as do several of their managed services.

Those are separate charges from the EC2 costs the Cloudflare blog post discussed.

[Guvante]

Egress does not mean S3 or Cloudflare. Egress is the raw pipe billing from AWS to the wider internet. Other services are priced differently.

[onphonenow]

That’s where folks are revealing how clueless they are.

Raw pipe isn’t priced in GB it’s in capacity. To serve GB on Black Friday you need to provision far far more capacity

[Dylan16807]

Yeah but people can do that math. Peak bandwidth is not 200x higher than average bandwidth.

Cloudflare used a 5x multiplier. How high do you think it needs to be? Does total AWS bandwidth even go up that much on black friday?