It's difficult to see how AWS and GCE can justify their ridiculous bandwidth charges given how low they buy it in bulk. This is plain profiteering. With cloud b

It's difficult to see how AWS and GCE can justify their ridiculous bandwidth charges given how low they buy it in bulk. This is plain profiteering. With cloud bandwidth was supposed to become something one takes for granted not something to fuss over with calculators. And the whole nickel and diming charges that force users to needlessly seperate their computing needs into storage, compute, memory, bandwidth, reads, writes and what not are actually forcing considerable complexity on users. This cannot be brushed aside as a good model for cloud when valuable user time is being wasted grappling with needless intricacies that have no reason not be flat. End users cannot buy bandwidth at low bulk rates and for things like backups may be faced with considerable overcharges on their local connections.