I think you need to do some more reading. I've not done a direct comparison of the bandwidth costs but based on volumes alone I think it's pretty cheap. The more people using them over time, economies of scale kick in further too. You also have to consider quality of bandwidth. If you host with a cheap provider, you'll need to consider latency and packet loss as the major factors - you'll not get many customers if the voice quality of your lines suck. Conversely I don't think Amazon can associate it's name with cheap providers. Besides, it's a very cheap mechanism for start-ups to, erm, start up. Hardly any capital investment needed. Marek Gorecki wrote:
Hi Folks,
Maybe I do not understand Amazon cloud, so please explain: it is perfect solution for scaling server side - no doubts, but how about traffic there ?
It is to be paid, so if you let telecomm traffic through, then transmission (counted in GBs) will be hell expencive !
I agree, that for small traffic it may not be the issue, but how about running apps with hundreds calls per minute ?
Am I wrong ?
Regards, /\/\arekg