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hueving on March 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A million-dollar engineering problem

>The profit AWS is making is purely due to datacenter efficiency and being able to automate their operations at scale.

That's what they want you to think, but a lot of it comes in the form of ripping you off for bandwidth to actually get data out of EC2.

dexterdog on March 17, 2017 [–]

I've been with AWS for about 10 years now on a number of projects. Bandwidth pricing has always been my major gripe. Almost everything else I consider fairly priced for what I get and how hands-off I get to be.

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