Interesting, so they are comparing to the OnDemand pricing of AWS, not including that 3-year reserved instances on AWS are somewhere in the ballpark of 48% cheaper, BUT, they have this footnote at the bottom of the pricing page that seems like a really interesting differentiating approach[1]:
No Charge For Data Transfer Up To 20TB Per Month Per
Account. 100TB free data transfer for customers over
500GB memory
On AWS, 20TB == 2,000GB * $0.10/GB (avg) = $200
and I suppose if you have enough SmartMachines on lease that you are pushing 500GB+ total of memory in your account, they up that to 100TB of transfer.
It looks like overages are a fairly reasonable $0.08/GB[2]
I think we are finally witnessing bandwidth becoming a race-to-0 for big cloud providers and I love it (I know there have been prediction-papers here on HN before about how it will eventually become free or near-free, it is just interesting to see the different ways we can get there). Best of luck to Joyent and it's great to see another strong competitor in this area!
ASIDE: Anyone have a geographical map of the data center locations you can deploy in the Joyent Cloud? One of the big appeals of AWS is having decent global coverage and I am trying to find more information about that form their site with no luck at the moment...
UPDATE: For anyone interested, just got this back from the Joyent team about the location of the data centers:
We launched today with two datacenters. WEST is in
Emeryville CA and SW is Las Vegas NV.
Inside of my.joyentcloud.com you will have a choice of
datacenters when provisioning a server.
and I suppose if you have enough SmartMachines on lease that you are pushing 500GB+ total of memory in your account, they up that to 100TB of transfer.
It looks like overages are a fairly reasonable $0.08/GB[2]
I think we are finally witnessing bandwidth becoming a race-to-0 for big cloud providers and I love it (I know there have been prediction-papers here on HN before about how it will eventually become free or near-free, it is just interesting to see the different ways we can get there). Best of luck to Joyent and it's great to see another strong competitor in this area!
ASIDE: Anyone have a geographical map of the data center locations you can deploy in the Joyent Cloud? One of the big appeals of AWS is having decent global coverage and I am trying to find more information about that form their site with no luck at the moment...
UPDATE: For anyone interested, just got this back from the Joyent team about the location of the data centers:
[1] http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/pricing-comparison/smart...[2] http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/smartmachines-2/options/