and network traffic to Azure (ingress) is free.
Traffic between Azure data centers is free between data centers in the same region ("Local Redundant"), and it is paid for transfer between data centers in different regions ("Geo Redundant")
define:ingress - Google Search a place or means of access; an entrance.
define:egress - Google Search the action of going out of or leaving a place.
What is Ingress Traffic? Webopedia
Network traffic that originates from outside of the networks routers and
proceeds toward a destination inside of the network.
What is Egress Traffic? Webopedia
Network traffic that begins inside of a network and proceeds through its routers
to a destination somewhere outside of the network
define:egress - Google Search the action of going out of or leaving a place.
What is Ingress Traffic? Webopedia
Network traffic that originates from outside of the networks routers and
proceeds toward a destination inside of the network.
What is Egress Traffic? Webopedia
Network traffic that begins inside of a network and proceeds through its routers
to a destination somewhere outside of the network
So what would be a price of YouTube like service traffic over Azure?
720p : 8.57 MB / minute
1080p 15.96 MB / minute (that is almost 1GB / hour)
Apparently Google keeps about 40+% of the revenue, and remaining is shared with content creators.
With Azure prices that is $4/month for traffic, for total of 57 GB.
So in average users need to watch less than 2 hours/day for service to be profitable...
Most likely Google's (or Netflix) internal cost is much lower...
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