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

[David Fifield]

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for December 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
April 2016     $1169.23 +  $1074.25 +  $508.93 =  $2752.41
May 2016        $525.46 +  $1097.46 +  $513.56 =  $2136.48
June 2016         $0.00 +  $1117.67 +  $575.50 =  $1693.17
July 2016         $0.00 +  $1121.71 +  $592.47 =  $1714.18
August 2016       $0.00 +  $1038.62 +  $607.13 =  $1645.75
September 2016    $0.00 +   $932.22 +  $592.92 =  $1525.14
October 2016      $0.00 +  $1259.19 +  $646.00 =  $1905.19
November 2016     $0.00 +  $1613.00 +  $597.76 =  $2210.76
December 2016     $0.00 +  $1569.84 + $1416.10 =  $2985.94
--
total by CDN  $13138.96 + $23340.47 + $8045.77 = $44525.20 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2016-10-01&end=2016-12-31&transport=meek

The number of users remained steady during December 2016 and the two
bridges remained at capacity. The cost for Azure was unusually high,
about double what it is normally. It seems to be caused by Azure
splitting up its geographical regions and charging more for traffic from
South America.


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

EU (Ireland)                  570M requests  $684.72  2831 GB $222.80
Global                         11M requests   $11.32    40 GB   $3.08
US East (Northern Virginia)   439M requests  $439.74  2646 GB $207.66
--
total                        1021M requests $1135.78  5518 GB $433.54
charge for alarms  $0.50

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


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

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

The Azure bill is about twice as high as usual. As you can see from the
table below, it's attributable to a large amount of traffic going
through "Zone 3", which is South America according to
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cdn/:
	Zone 1: $0.087/GB: North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa
	Zone 2: $0.138/GB: Asia Pacific (including Japan)
	Zone 3: $0.250/GB: South America
	Zone 4: $0.140/GB: Australia
	Zone 5: $0.170/GB: India
The first time Zones 3 and 4 even appeared was just two months ago, in
October of 2016. In October there was only 1 GB in Zone 3 and in
November only 7 GB, so December's total of 4868 GB is a big shock. I
searched but did not find a way to limit the zones that can be used to
serve content on Azure.

Zone 1  2029 GB  $ 176.51
Zone 2   116 GB  $  15.98
Zone 3  4868 GB  $1217.06
Zone 4    12 GB  $   1.68
Zone 5    29 GB  $   4.87
--
total   7053 GB  $1416.10


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