AWS Egress Bandwidth Costs
Comments criticize the exorbitant prices AWS and other cloud providers charge for outbound (egress) bandwidth, highlighting massive markups compared to wholesale costs and arguing it's an anti-competitive lock-in strategy.
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AWS prices egress bandwidth at a ridiculous premium. It shouldn't cost a large host anywhere near that.
AWS charges probably around 100 times what bandwidth actually costs. Maybe more.
Because you use AWS and they charge insane fees for outgoing bandwidth.
Will the bandwidth not cost way higher on AWS than the $15 mentioned?
I bet a big factor is that AWS and GCP charge obscene markups for bandwidth. Much harder to get away with.
Are you at a hoster with extortionately expensive bandwidth, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure?
it also depends on your usecase. if you are very bandwidth outbound heavy, yes aws is crazy.
Their main cost is outgoing bandwidth, AWS outgoing bandwidth is really expensive.
Is $0.55/GB not enough reason to avoid them? I guess not if your business is making more than that - bandwidth expense for a shopping site shouldn't be a problem when the customers are spending $100 for every 0.1GB - but that price should realistically be closer to $0.01/GB or even $0.002/GB. Sounds like they're forwarding you AWS's extremely excessive bandwidth pricing.
cloud providers charge a lot more for bandwidth yes, but in reality bandwidth is much, much cheaper than storage for them to provide.