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		trd1479 on Jan 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How We Estimated Our AWS Costs Before Shipping Any... What about i/o costs of traffic (outgress). What other costs do we need to factor in on aws?

matm on Jan 10, 2014 [–]

For us, I/O isn't as big a cost factor, since our data processing mostly resides in ephemeral storage where I/O charges don't apply. (Our permanent data backups live in S3.)

I/O pricing does apply when using EBS.

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