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

[Shari Steele]

Hey David.
What’s the current status of the talks with Amazon?  Is this something I should follow up on?
Shari

On Mar 27, 2016, at 11:18 PM, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote:

> Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for February 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
> --
> total by CDN  $10364.78 + $11624.45 + $2067.82 = $24057.05 grand total
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2015-12-01&end=2016-02-29&transport=meek
> 
> In February 2016, meek reached its highest heights ever in terms of
> number of users--15,000 concurrent--before settling back down to about
> 10,000, where it started the month. For a few days, when obfs3 was on
> the way down and obfs4 was on the way up, meek was the #1 most used
> pluggable transport. obfs4 is a story of its own: it exploded from 3,000
> to 15,000 users, probably aided by the many new default high-bandwidth
> bridges added to Tor Browser recently. It's possible that the increased
> capacity of obfs4 has taken some of the pressure off meek.
> 
> We moved over 13 TB of traffic over all three services combined.
> 
> 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:
> 	5829 GB             $699.50
> 	5737 instance hours $286.89
> Compared to the previous month:
> 	4274 GB             $512.86
> 	5166 instance hours $258.31
> 
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/88F745840F47CE0C6A4FE61D827950B06F9E4534
> 
> 
> == Amazon a.k.a. meek-amazon ==
> 
> We didn't have the unusually high charge for HTTPS requests this month
> that we had last month. December had 142M requests in the EU (Ireland)
> region; January had 805M; and February is back to 156M.
> 
> I set up additional pricing alarms. Apparently I crossed some kind of
> threshold for number of alarms, because they started charging for them,
> for the first time. The alarms cost $0.50.
> 
> Asia Pacific (Singapore)     247M requests $296.50   952 GB $141.52
> Asia Pacific (Sydney)          1M requests   $1.95     6 GB   $0.91
> Asia Pacific (Tokyo)          29M requests  $35.42   225 GB  $29.68
> EU (Ireland)                 156M requests $188.05  1222 GB  $96.31
> South America (Sao Paulo)      9M requests  $20.47    77 GB  $18.33
> US East (Northern Virginia)   94M requests  $94.06   687 GB  $54.13
> --
> total                        538M requests $636.45  3171 GB $340.88
> charge for alarms  $0.50
> 
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE516564D
> 
> 
> == Azure a.k.a. meek-azure ==
> 
> Zone 1  4103 GB  $357.00
> Zone 2   644 GB  $ 88.83
> --
> total   4747 GB  $445.83
> 
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A34
> 
> 
> Earlier reports in this series:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Costs
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