@mnot @eliotlear @huitema @danwing
multi-cdn/multi-cloud always sounds good on a powerpoint slide but the devil is in the details. different automation/APIs, different functionality usually means massive complexity for the customer and/or going least common denominator and losing most of the special sauce you went to said CDN for in the first place. an outage has to be a huge expense to you to make it worth considering it at all.
@paul_ipv6 @eliotlear @huitema @danwing many many companies do multi cdn. The fact that it’s based on an open standard - http caching - makes that possible. Could it be easier? Of course.
@huitema @danwing @paul_ipv6 @mnot absolutely. In fact there’s an entire industry ecosystem around this. A smarter person than me would figure out how to disintermediate it.
@paul_ipv6 @mnot @danwing @huitema and as if on queue, Amazon has informed me that they will start charging $43/year for an IPv4 address, in what seems to me a transparent attempt to push people into route53. For that they will lose a customer, and I will test just how easy “multicloud” is for a small player. That’s really where I imagine the real friction is.
@eliotlear @paul_ipv6 @danwing @huitema @mnot
I'm confused how AWS charging $4 monthly for an EIP pushes anyone into route53 - what am I missing?
It's probably worth noting this brings them into parity with Azure who already charge that, and is half of the $8 Google cloud charges for a public IP. IPv4 addresses are becoming a very scarce commodity; as much as I dislike paying, I understand why they're implementing it. I wonder if any of the smaller cloud providers still provide them free of charge...
@eliotlear @mnot @Biggles @paul_ipv6 @danwing On the other hand, IPv6 addresses are free. So for the one VM dedicated to "testing QUIC", IPv6 only seems tempting. I just have to convince my ISP to give me IPv6 connectivity...
@mnot @Biggles @paul_ipv6 @danwing @huitema it’s of course a matter of how many instances that applies to, and what percentage of operating costs the new price is. For some that might represent an over 40% price increase. That demands a reconsideration of the approach.