If you have a lot of data it's cheaper to lease a Direct Connect line into an AWS zone and suck it out through that.
replyI might be reading the pricing wrong but you have to pay per hour for the port plus per GB transfer? And looks like the cheapest is $0.02 per GB? Is that really the 'cheap' option? That looks fine for a TB or two, but still crazy when getting closer to PBs.
replyYes that’s the cheap option.
replyBut to be fair, I deal with several customers that are in the double digit petabyte scale. When you’re operating at that scale, and have 7-figure AWS bills on a monthly basis, AWS is suddenly a lot more available to you and much more willing to accommodate pretty much anything.
You do but you can actually negotiate discounts with AWS when you get to Direct Connect level. It's only cheaper than the other options. It's never acceptable.
replyThis is why we're slowly and quietly moving back to a couple of cages in a DC. Well we were until the AI companies bought all the fuck RAM and SSDs.
> A week or so later, if they approve the request, you're not allowed to begin DTO until 60 days after the approval.
replyDo you have proof of this? That is not disclosed in their policy.