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		capableweb on May 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Searching the web for under $1000/month > which is key as each instance issues a lot of parallel requests to Amazon S3 and tends to be bound by the network I wonder if most of the cost comes from S3, EC2 or the "premium" bandwidth that Amazon charges ridiculously much for. Since it seems to be doing a lot of requests, it wouldn't surprise me if it's the network cost, and if so, I wonder why they would even use AWS at all then.

ddorian43 on May 7, 2021 [–]

> I wonder if most of the cost comes from S3

This current cost comes from the big dataset of storage in S3.

> it wouldn't surprise me if it's the network cost

Network cost is only outbound. Inside it's free (except multi region etc). Ec2 <-> S3 is free bandwidth (you pay for requests).

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