Thanks for this particularly the Facebook scale calc. I do think it's a bit odd though to emphasize that your friend paying zero and then play down that he gets billed $30. There are services where the bandwidth is free. For example the fully managed kubernetes hosting we use charges $25 a gig then limits the cpu but the bandwidth as free. It requires that we sign up for 2G minimum so that's a minimum of $50 per month but there are no hidden costs, no propriety technologies, and no lock in and it's portable to all the clouds.
Also if the service you are talking wasn't second in the market and in a price war with a competitor would it have such a large discount? How many millions is your company paying to host so many apps that don't make it past a million hits? Can you post a link to a commitment that the first free million will be free forever? If not can you provide an estimate of how much cost it would be for your friend to rewrite their app onto a competitors serverless offering?
I'm not familiar with pricing for all providers everywhere. Some do give away hosting and bandwidth free, but rest assured they are paying for it somewhere - usually they are absorbing it to attract developers. Bandwidth is an unavoidable charge in the cloud.
Thanks for this particularly the Facebook scale calc. I do think it's a bit odd though to emphasize that your friend paying zero and then play down that he gets billed $30. There are services where the bandwidth is free. For example the fully managed kubernetes hosting we use charges $25 a gig then limits the cpu but the bandwidth as free. It requires that we sign up for 2G minimum so that's a minimum of $50 per month but there are no hidden costs, no propriety technologies, and no lock in and it's portable to all the clouds.
Also if the service you are talking wasn't second in the market and in a price war with a competitor would it have such a large discount? How many millions is your company paying to host so many apps that don't make it past a million hits? Can you post a link to a commitment that the first free million will be free forever? If not can you provide an estimate of how much cost it would be for your friend to rewrite their app onto a competitors serverless offering?
I'm not familiar with pricing for all providers everywhere. Some do give away hosting and bandwidth free, but rest assured they are paying for it somewhere - usually they are absorbing it to attract developers. Bandwidth is an unavoidable charge in the cloud.
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