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MasterScrat 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How some good corporate engineering blogs are writ...

It's a tangent, but reading this linked article from 2014: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...

Am I reading correctly that egress in Europe costs $8 Mbps/month which is $0.0004/GB, while GCP charges you $0.12/GB?!

And this was in 2014, and the article states the price they show is "higher than actual pricing"

SSLy 8 months ago [–]

Yep, egress pricing is the method AWS locks their users in. This has been mentioned by other users here over the years. Put "aws egress" into https://www.searchhacker.news/ and enjoy the folklore.

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