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		remram on July 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a... I think the point is that not every host charges for bandwidth or CPU usage, making S3 particularly risky.

RhodesianHunter on July 31, 2021 [–]

There's no CPU charge, only per-request charges.

Bandwidth is free into S3 or from S3 to another AWS service so it's particularly handy for that use case.

remram on July 31, 2021 | [–]

For S3, yes.

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