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

[David Fifield]

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for May 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
--
total by CDN  $13138.96 + $14661.22 + $3625.02 = $31425.20 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2016-03-01&end=2016-05-31&transport=meek

As you can see, the number of users took a hit around May 13, dropping
from ≈10,000 to ≈6,000. This was caused by the suspension of
meek-google. You can read more about that here:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html

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 ==

3068 GB             $368.17
3146 instance hours $157.29

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


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

Asia Pacific (Singapore)     215M requests $258.16   651 GB  $90.42
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          7M requests   $9.66    54 GB   $7.46
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)           1M requests   $2.05    17 GB   $2.28
EU (Ireland)                 249M requests $299.58  1617 GB $127.67
South America (Sao Paulo)     15M requests  $34.23   174 GB  $40.95
US East (Northern Virginia)  126M requests $126.43  1249 GB  $98.10
--
total                        616M requests $730.11  3765 GB $366.88
charge for alarms  $0.48

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


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

Zone 1  5262 GB  $457.76
Zone 2   404 GB  $ 55.80
--
total   5666 GB  $513.56

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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