Hahahah. I don't even know where to start. If you think a 200x markup from list price on IP transit is a fair reflection of costs from AWS then good luck to you.
Attempting to have a conversation by laughing in someones face as a starter is incredibly obnoxious. If you thought so little of what I had to say why reply at all? What are you hoping to gain by doing this?
I'm not sure you how get a 200x multiplier from per GB prices when the list prices are not per GB of transfer but per GB of capacity. Or are you taking a 1Gb/s price average of $1000/mo and then assuming 100% egress activity on this pipe then multiplying a full month of this 100% usage by the AWS price and dividing the two? I get around 230x there, but this is not a practical comparison, and these types of links are quite different than a standard COLO, so you're in for quite a bit of overhead.
Plus, if you actually used this much bandwidth on AWS, 2.5PB, you could get nearly a 10x break in pricing, bringing the multiple down to 23x. If you didn't try to pre purchase the multiple would be something like 80x because of their built in automatic tiering.
In terms of CloudFront I'm getting a global caching layer. In terms of EC2 I get the VPC. I'm getting quite a bit more than just the bandwidth. In terms of luck, we feel we don't need it because we've actually sat down and calculated the costs (even all the above) for running the type of product we're running, and it's /far cheaper/ to do it entirely inside AWS.
This is all assuming you actually wanted to discuss this on merit.
I'm not sure you how get a 200x multiplier from per GB prices when the list prices are not per GB of transfer but per GB of capacity. Or are you taking a 1Gb/s price average of $1000/mo and then assuming 100% egress activity on this pipe then multiplying a full month of this 100% usage by the AWS price and dividing the two? I get around 230x there, but this is not a practical comparison, and these types of links are quite different than a standard COLO, so you're in for quite a bit of overhead.
Plus, if you actually used this much bandwidth on AWS, 2.5PB, you could get nearly a 10x break in pricing, bringing the multiple down to 23x. If you didn't try to pre purchase the multiple would be something like 80x because of their built in automatic tiering.
In terms of CloudFront I'm getting a global caching layer. In terms of EC2 I get the VPC. I'm getting quite a bit more than just the bandwidth. In terms of luck, we feel we don't need it because we've actually sat down and calculated the costs (even all the above) for running the type of product we're running, and it's /far cheaper/ to do it entirely inside AWS.
This is all assuming you actually wanted to discuss this on merit.