Well the thing is OP was talking about fairly significant amounts of bandwidth. Even were it not to be latency related, using AWS at those levels will be quite expensive. 1TB of bandwidth from EC2 is for example between $100 and $200 depending on location etc. So for someone in Australia to be wanting to do that level of bandwidth, $100-200/TB is quite a lot for a dedicated service vs elastic.<div>
<br></div><div>There doesn't seem to be any business willing to step up and provide a service instead of just profiteering, not yet anyway..</div><div><br></div><div>With NBN possibly coming, the first to work out how and to start servicing Aussies (and NZers) at reasonable prices, will be doing everyone a service. With inter-city cap dropping to $10/Mbit it is easily possible to be selling 1:1 uncontended 1TB for $50 and be making more than enough money. Here's to the future!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Tim March <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:march.tim@gmail.com" target="_blank">march.tim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 26/08/12 10:57 AM, Noel Butler wrote:<br>
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Hell, the U.S. even pays less than half what we pay for power per kwH (9-13c that I know of, probably some even less), everything in AU is an utter rip off, and once businesses figure out the impact of the latest how-do-we-fuck-aussies-up-more tax, errr I mean carbon tax, which may take most SMB 6 months or so to decisively work out its impact, direct and indirect, so they can justify price increases to the wankers in govt who want to try threaten them for trying to survive - costs will likely rise further again<br>
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I recently reviewed a facility space quote on behalf of a customer that included a 'Carbon Tax Supplement' of $54.00 per cabinet. From memory it included ~ 2kW of power with additional 1kW blocks running up ~ $850ea. Adding in the $1,675 base price per cabinet means you're then looking at $3,239 for a standard 3.84kW cabinet before you even think about putting data services in it.<br>
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Unless I need some serious grunt (eg. cabinets stacked 3 deep with 16-slot blade enclosures) that absolutely has to be on shore it just makes more sense to use providers like EC2 for most applications.<br>
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