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by zzt123 1600 days ago
Interestingly, Troy says that egress is expensive on Azure at $0.014 AUD/gB (~$0.010 USD/gB), but that is the same price as additional egress for Linode and DO, and Linode egress has never struck me as expensive. In fact, I’m kind of shocked (as an AWS user) that Azure egress is the same price as Linode.

Actually, wow it seems AWS is also the same price as Linode and DO for egress. While Linodes and DO do come with decent free bandwidth, this is a surprise to me.
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coder543 1600 days ago
You’ve interpreted the numbers wrong. Yes, Linode, DigitalOcean, and most of this class of providers charge $0.01/GB. Almost literally an order of magnitude less than Azure or AWS. The megaclouds massively overcharge for bandwidth. It’s not even close.

AWS charges $0.09/GB, and Azure charges $0.0875/GB.

Maybe Troy Hunt gets a discount for being a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. (Neither of which make him an employee of Microsoft, confusingly enough.)

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/billing/bandwidth/

https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-transfer/

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/

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zzt123 1599 days ago
Ah weird. I was on some AWS page that said the cost was $0.01/gB, which threw me off as seeking ridiculous compared to what I remembered. Not sure what page it was, but clearly that is not the actual pricing.
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graton 1600 days ago
I think the article is incorrect.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/details/bandwidth/...

The AUD $0.014/GB is only for data transfer between Availability Zones.

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patrec 1600 days ago
How can $10 per TB not strike you as expensive? You can easily download that much a day on consumer broadband that will cost you far less than $10/day.
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fabian2k 1600 days ago
If you download the data twice at that price point, you could buy an HDD to store it for the same price (the bigger HDDs seem to be at ~ 18 EUR per TB here).
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CodesInChaos 1598 days ago
$10/TB is between availability zones in the same region. Egress to the internet costs $50-$90. So it's much more expensive than the already expensive $10.
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