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by lucidguppy 892 days ago
This feels like the tech equivalent of tax avoidance.

If too many people do this - AWS will "just close the loophole".

There's not one AWS - there are probably dozens if not hundreds of AWS - each with their own KPIs. One wants to reduce your spend - but not tell you how to really reduce your spend.

If you make something complex enough (AWS) - it will be impossible for customers to optimize in any one factor - as everything is complected together.
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karlkatzke 892 days ago
This isn't a loophole. This is by design. AWS wants you to use specific services in specific ways, so they make it really cheap to do so. Using an endpoint for S3 is one of the ways they want you to use the S3 service.

Another example is using CloudFront. AWS wants you to use CloudFront, so they make CloudFront cheaper than other types of data egress.

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lucidguppy 892 days ago
If they wanted you to behave in specific ways logically - wouldn't their documentation be less ambiguous?

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...

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