[AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

Wed Nov 14 12:15:15 EST 2012

Could the current speeds be adversely impacted by a bunch of AusNOG
subscribers doing speed tests perhaps?

On 14/11/12 12:01, Greg Lipschitz wrote:
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> I can't say that I'm overly impressed with the speed.
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> Uploaded at 75KB/sec
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> Downloaded at 20KB/sec
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> *From:*ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Joshua D'Alton
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 November 2012 11:16 AM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
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> Yes the price for 5000TB over 3 years is more than 15 million, yet the
> hardware would cost less than 2mill, add in racking and bandwidth it
> might rise to 5 mil, but nowhere near 10 let alone 15.
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> Anyway, AWS isn't used by penny pinchers :D
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> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, ausnog (321) <ausnog at 321.com.au
> <mailto:ausnog at 321.com.au>> wrote:
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> Morning all,
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> My first impression of the rates is a bit contrary to others on this
> thread. Specifically,  I don't see them as great value for data
> storage if you are using them for off-site storage.
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> Two caveats to my comment are:
> -       assuming that you are using AWS for off-site backup then you
> just need a good NAS (we set this up as NAS with Raid 6 plus 1 spare
> giving 26TB usable space, good performance and resilience with option
> to replicate to multi datacentres/locations) in 2ru.
> -       Even if you are using AWS as highly available clustered
> storage they are still not that well priced by our price book.
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> Even using their online price calculator 26TB of usable space
> (standard storage) costs $2,856.70pm or $34,280.40pa or $102,841.20
> over 3 years and it's not hard to do better than that.
>
> What am I missing?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
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> <mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Emily Ozols
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2012 9:33 AM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
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> I just read their prices this morning and I'm astounded as how low
> they've kept them.
> They have to be selling at a loss.
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
> Just check them out here.
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> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au
> <mailto:joshua at railgun.com.au>> wrote:
> > This could make some impact re the peering thread at least on a
> > national scale. hmmm
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> > -----------------------------
> > Dear AWS Customer,
> >
> > We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new Asia
> > Pacific (Sydney) Region.
> >
> > Starting today, customers can run their applications and workloads in
> > the new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region to reduce latency to end-users
> > based in Australia and New Zealand while avoiding the up-front
> > expenses, long-term commitments, and scaling challenges associated
> > with maintaining and operating their own infrastructure. Sydney joins
> > Singapore and Tokyo as the third Region in Asia Pacific and as the
> ninth Region worldwide.
> >
> > AWS's new Sydney
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