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		nh2 on Feb 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon EBS Update – New Elastic Volumes Change Eve... Here are some numbers: AWS Internet traffic costs ~60x as much as renting bare metal servers. No change in architecture can change that fact.

jronald on Feb 14, 2017 [–]

That's one example and matches a use case where AWS / "Cloud" providers may not be ideal. Hybrid setups with external CDN can mitigate some of this as well.

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