On Friday 2020-02-28 08:59, Daniel Stone wrote:
I believe that in January, we had $2082 of network cost (almost entirely egress; ingress is basically free) and $1750 of cloud-storage cost (almost all of which was download). That's based on 16TB of cloud-storage (CI artifacts, container images, file uploads, Git LFS) egress and 17.9TB of other egress (the web service itself, repo activity). Projecting that out [×12 for a year] gives us roughly $45k of network activity alone,
I had come to a similar conclusion a few years back: It is not very economic to run ephemereal buildroots (and anything like it) between two (or more) "significant locations" of which one end is located in a Large Cloud datacenter like EC2/AWS/etc.
As for such usecases, me and my surrounding peers have used (other) offerings where there is 50 TB free network/month, and yes that may have entailed doing more adminning than elsewhere - but an admin appreciates $2000 a lot more than a corporation, too.