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

[ausnog (321)]

Agreeing with your answer/calc and add the comment that even at lower quantities the numbers just don't stack up, they are expensive compared to other existing local solution. I used 26TB as we sell/host heaps of these and to good sized businesses as well.

My question was meant to also understand why others on the list thought it was good value as I just don't see it, ie why all the excitement?

Cheers

Steve


From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]<mailto:[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]> On Behalf Of Joshua D'Alton
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

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.

Anyway, AWS isn't used by penny pinchers :D


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, ausnog (321) <ausnog at 321.com.au<mailto:ausnog at 321.com.au>> wrote:
Morning all,

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.

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.

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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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Emily Ozols
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

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.

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
>
> -----------------------------
> 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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