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Thank you cloudflare for calling AWS out on their ridiculous transfer pricing. Anybody working in this space has been frustrated with it for over a decade. We all know it's a ripoff, and we all know it's priced in a way to lock you and others into AWS.

I've used AWS at every job I've ever had. But that bandwidth pricing has been incredibly frustrating.

Also where possible we now host on lightsail, because the bandwidth savings make the hardware completely free. It's not the best hardware, but it works. The web console is also a joy to use by comparison.



Or, it's priced at market -- within 10% of Azure, GCP, and Alibaba, and not the highest priced among them.


Except it's not when it comes to peered bandwidth, like with cloudflare. Which is a big deal especially to cloudflare.

If you're in Alibaba, Azure or Google Cloud you can cut your costs by putting cloudflare in front, even though that adds another service you pay for.

And all of them have ridiculous bandwidth pricing compared to the entire rest of the hosting industry.


Calling the pricing ridiculous is why engineers are underpaid.

Don’t value bottoms up, you undersell yourself. Value top down.




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