On July 23 (local time), Cloudflare published a critique on its official blog that Amazon Web Services (AWS) downlink rates are unusually high.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a tweet on his Twitter account that AWS bandwidth pricing is insane, and that AWS is the only industry in the industry that offers customers a discount when sending peered network traffic.
He also pointed out in an official blog that AWS charges customers according to data capacity, while AWS itself does not pay only for bandwidth. Industry prices have fallen 23% per year on average, making them 93% cheaper over the past decade. However, during the same period, AWS downlink rates fell by only 25%. They criticized AWS for setting a fee system based on billing or cost burden to customers and getting profit from the difference.
If you use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator to calculate it, assuming that the usage ratio of AWS charges and operating costs is 20%, $128.90 is charged for 1TB capacity in Seoul, which is assumed to be $8.91 per Mbps. Meanwhile, the local cost per Mbvps is only $2.50.
It is pointed out that because there is a difference between these rates and operating costs, AWS is charging customers 357% of operating costs in Seoul and 80 times in North America and the EU. Prince said that the rational reason for AWS to set such downlink rates is to surround customers with its cloud, and criticized AWS’s emphasis on customer first.
On the other hand, in one report, at least the face down communication fee is $0.11 per 1GB of Google Cloud Platform, $0.09 for AWS compared to $0.0875 for Microsoft Azure, and there seems to be no big difference between Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and AWS pointed out whether it is working with Cloud Player to offer discounts on down-communication rates for customers. In other words, Cloudflare pointed out that AWS is obsessed with AWS, expecting them to get along with them. Related information can be found here.