> Show me somewhere you can get a petabyte of egress inside a calendar month for 4 figures USD
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most colocation/dedicated server providers offer such prices. E.g. hetzner.com @ €1/TB, sprintdatacenter.pl @ €0.91/TB, dedicated.com @ $2/TB (or $600/month for an unmetered 1 Gbps connection).
But if you want S3/CDNs/<insert any cloud offering here>, then yeah, they're expensive.
BTW per Cloudflare ToS[0]:
> Use of the Service for the storage or caching of video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited.
Cloudfront is a premium service. It's not a good baseline for bandwidth prices.
Backblaze will send out data for 1 cent per GB, or $13,500. BunnyCDN apparently starts at 1 cent per GB in North America and Europe, and has a fewer-PoP plan that would be $5,550. And let's be fair, you don't need many points of presence for half-gig neural network models.
The other option is buying transit. Let's say we want the ability to deliver 80% of the 45TB in 4 hours as our peak rate. Then we need 20gbps of bandwidth. That's around $9,000 in a big US datacenter. Aim for a peak of 6/8 hours and it's $6,000/$4,500.
I may be a little off, but definitely not by an order of magnitude. Even high-end hosting at a provider like Akamai can be under $10/TB-mo for such large volumes. And since you don't need any of the hundred value-added services that Akamai, Cloufront, Fastly etc. offer, the budget providers can go a lot lower than that.
You're an order of magnitude off.
45 TB per day is 1,350 TB in a month, or 1,350,000 GB.
Show me somewhere you can get a petabyte of egress inside a calendar month for 4 figures USD...
Let's suppose you even used the cheaper egress from Cloudfront rather than serving from S3 (lol @ your wallet if you serve 1 PB doing that).
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-re...
The first petabyte costs an average of $0.045 per GB - $45,000.
The remaining 350 TB costs another $10,500 for a total of $55,500.
Serving off S3 directly? Yeah, that'll be more like $150,000.