So what about the cdns? They're all overselling too? Otherwise they'd obviously have to charge amazon prices?
From eg Hetzner and other less affordable hosts (and from second hand comments here on hn about bandwidth is where amazon has ridiculously high margins) - I'll venture that the "cloud" providers get away with it because on average "actual" bandwidth correlate with "actual" usage: and hence correlate with actual users that pay or are worth paying "for".
I get 30tb/month bw with my 50/month hetzner dedicated server (along with 1gps uplink). And I can actually use that.
I can't even see backing stuff up to a typical "cloud" provider, because testing restore of a single tb of data/month would be too expensive.
From eg Hetzner and other less affordable hosts (and from second hand comments here on hn about bandwidth is where amazon has ridiculously high margins) - I'll venture that the "cloud" providers get away with it because on average "actual" bandwidth correlate with "actual" usage: and hence correlate with actual users that pay or are worth paying "for".
I get 30tb/month bw with my 50/month hetzner dedicated server (along with 1gps uplink). And I can actually use that.
I can't even see backing stuff up to a typical "cloud" provider, because testing restore of a single tb of data/month would be too expensive.