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

[David Fifield]

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for August 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 =  $5400.12
--
total by CDN  $13138.96 + $17939.22 + $4792.99 = $35871.17 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2016-06-01&end=2016-08-30&transport=meek

The number of users continued to rise last month, getting almost to
10,000, about the level it was at before the meek-google shutdown.
(There's a big dip near the end of the month, but it doesn't seem to
have lasted long.) That means that meek-azure and meek-amazon are under
increased load compared to before--about 7 TB/month for meek-azure and
3 TB/month for meek-amazon. If I get a chance, I'm going to try
installing an ECDSA (as opposed to RSA) certificate on meek-azure, and
see if it relieves the CPU load.

If you are one of the users affected by the meek-google shutdown, see
here for a workaround:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html


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

Asia Pacific (Singapore)      77M requests  $93.24   428 GB  $57.27
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          6M requests   $7.52    33 GB   $4.51
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)           1M requests   $1.38     7 GB   $0.95
EU (Ireland)                 299M requests $359.00   997 GB  $77.22
Global                         1M requests   $1.91     6 GB   $0.48
South America (Sao Paulo)     22M requests  $49.82   177 GB  $42.23
US East (Northern Virginia)  247M requests $247.36  1214 GB  $95.24
--
total                        655M requests $760.23  2865 GB $277.90
charge for alarms  $0.50

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


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

Zone 1  6731 GB  $585.61
Zone 2   156 GB  $ 21.52
--
total   6887 GB  $607.13

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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