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

[David Fifield]

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for April 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
--
total by CDN  $12613.50 + $13563.76 + $3111.46 = $29288.72 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2016-02-01&end=2016-04-30&transport=meek

The number of users again stayed pretty flat during April 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:
	6942 GB             $833.06
        6723 instance hours $336.17

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


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

Asia Pacific (Singapore)     231M requests $278.22   594 GB  $84.85
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          3M requests   $4.06    17 GB   $2.36
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)         881K requests   $1.06     5 GB   $0.70
EU (Ireland)                 256M requests $307.32  2040 GB $161.79
South America (Sao Paulo)      9M requests  $20.08    71 GB  $16.90
US East (Northern Virginia)  120M requests $120.72   953 GB  $75.70
--
total                        621M requests $731.46  3683 GB $342.30
charge for alarms  $0.50

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


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

Zone 1  5183 GB  $450.88
Zone 2   421 GB  $ 58.05
--
total   5603 GB  $508.93

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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