Posted by Rick Mathieu on December 17, 2008
Amazon Virtualization
Virtualization Benchmark
Amazon sold storage to external customers for 15 cents/GB/month (estimated).
Bechtel’s internal storage costs were $3.75/GB/month.
WHAT BECHTEL LEARNED: Amazon could sell storage cheaply, Ramleth believes, because its servers were more highly utilized.
Source: CIO Magazine, Bechtel’s New Benchmarks, October 24, 2008.
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Posted by Rick Mathieu on November 27, 2008
YouTube paid $10-15/megabit
Bechtel paid $500/megabit
WHAT BECHTEL LEARNED: It was more than volume discounts from telecom vendors that got YouTube its lower costs. YouTube locates its data centers in places where there’s already a lot of bandwidth, so they don’t have to pay as much for infrastructure.
Source: Bechtel’s New Benchmarks’, CIO Magazine, October 24, 2008
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