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by spoonjim 1668 days ago
AWS is a luxury product and the outbound charge is the delivery fee. You will also find that the delivery fee for a Louis Vuitton bag is more than for a pizza.
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tw04 1668 days ago
AWS spent the first decade of existence advertising to executives as a way to significantly decrease their cost of IT, not as the Louis Vuitton of IT.
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spoonjim 1667 days ago
Even a Rolls Royce is cheaper than building your own equivalent car.
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jleahy 1667 days ago
If you need one car, but probably not if you need tens or hundreds of thousands.
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jollybean 1668 days ago
No, it's a very valuable tool for corporate IT.

The egress is a way to snare a lot of extra margin.

It's 100% clear that orgs. wanting to host large public platforms will have 'major concerns' over this pricing issue but that's not their target market.

I'll bet most HNeers are thinking in terms of 'Hosting my App' there vs. AWS Bread and Butter is mostly hosting corporate IT services, which is a different thing.

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