[tor-project] Summary of meek's costs, March 2016

[David Fifield]

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for March 2016.

             App Engine +    Amazon +    Azure = total by period
all 2014        $600.63 +   $917.89 +    $0.00 =  $1518.52
January 2015    $464.37 +   $669.02 +    $0.00 =  $1133.39
February 2015   $650.53 +   $604.83 +    $0.00 =  $1255.36
March 2015      $690.29 +   $815.68 +    $0.00 =  $1505.97
April 2015      $886.43 +   $785.37 +    $0.00 =  $1671.80
May 2015        $871.64 +   $896.39 +    $0.00 =  $1768.03
June 2015       $601.83 +   $820.00 +    $0.00 =  $1421.83
July 2015       $732.01 +   $837.08 +    $0.00 =  $1569.09
August 2015     $656.76 +   $819.59 +  $154.89 =  $1631.24
September 2015  $617.08 +   $710.75 +  $490.58 =  $1818.41
October 2015    $672.01 +   $110.72 +  $300.64 =  $1083.37
November 2015   $602.35 +   $474.13 +  $174.18 =  $1250.66
December 2015   $561.29 +   $603.27 +  $172.60 =  $1337.16
January 2016    $771.17 +  $1581.88 +  $329.10 =  $2682.15
February 2016   $986.39 +   $977.85 +  $445.83 =  $2410.07
March 2016     $1079.49 +   $865.06 +  $534.71 =  $2479.26
--
total by CDN  $11444.27 + $12489.51 + $2602.53 = $26536.31 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2016-01-01&end=2016-03-31&transport=meek

The number of users stayed pretty flat during March 2016 at 10,000.

Reminder that if you configure your own CDN or App Engine account and
point it at https://meek.bamsoftware.com/, you will be using a
completely unlimited bridge, which will go faster and help save money.


== App Engine a.k.a. meek-google ==

Here is how the Google costs broke down:
	6114 GB             $733.72
        6915 instance hours $345.77
Compared to the previous month:
	5829 GB             $699.50
	5737 instance hours $286.89

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/88F745840F47CE0C6A4FE61D827950B06F9E4534


== Amazon a.k.a. meek-amazon ==

Asia Pacific (Singapore)     210M requests $252.14   423 GB  $59.93
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          1M requests   $2.37    10 GB   $1.41
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)          16M requests  $19.65   113 GB  $14.88
EU (Ireland)                 174M requests $209.44  1444 GB $113.87
South America (Sao Paulo)      9M requests  $20.62    71 GB  $17.00
US East (Northern Virginia)   96M requests  $96.98   711 GB  $56.29
--
total                        509M requests $601.20  2775 GB $263.38
charge for alarms  $0.50

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE516564D


== Azure a.k.a. meek-azure ==

Zone 1  4991 GB  $434.24
Zone 2   728 GB  $100.47
--
total   5719 GB  $534.71

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A34


Earlier reports in this series:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Costs
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