Re: Service names for Debian mirrors in cloud infrastructure

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:57:44AM -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote:
> I guess you are confusing this part, Martin. Azure, like other cloud
> providers (at least Amazon and Google), doesn't charge their users for
> ingress bandwidth[1]:
> "Inbound data transfers
> (i.e. data going into Azure data centers): Free"

This is true for public Azure, however not for others like Azure China.

> So even if they use a mirror located outside Microsoft network, they
> will not be paying more for it. This is not outgoing traffic.

There is still outgoing traffic (a TCP connection needs data in both
directions).

Bastian

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