What Happens When the Cloud Meets a Bandwidth Cap

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[Commentary] The cloud is a wonderful thing. It allows us all to keep almost unlimited backup copies of our documents, photos, music and other files on a remote server somewhere, and thanks to services such as Amazon’s AWS suite, such backups are pretty cheap as well — pennies a gigabyte. At least, they’re supposed to be. But when the cloud meets an Internet service provider’s bandwidth cap (something that is unfortunately becoming more and more commonplace) it can be a less than happy experience.


What Happens When the Cloud Meets a Bandwidth Cap