> The bandwidth costs are so far out of line with what the network transfer actually costs, it just feels like price fixing between the major cloud players that

> The bandwidth costs are so far out of line with what the network transfer actually costs, it just feels like price fixing between the major cloud players that nobody is drastically reducing those prices, only storage prices. Yes, it makes me wonder. For many applications, the ridiculous bandwidth costs will be substantially higher than compute costs, so it makes no sense that nobody in this supposedly competitive market wants to compete in this area. > There are several providers that offer a unmetered 1gbps line PLUS a dedicated server for ~600-750/mo. Providers like OVH offer the bandwidth for as little as 100/month. ( https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrade.x.. https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrade.x.... ) I am just not sure how amazon can justify a 160x price increase over OVH or a 30x increase over dedicated server + transfer. OVH and other large volume providers are probably relying on the fact that many customers won't use 100% of their purchased capacity, but even taking that into consideration, AWS/GCE/Azure bandwidth pricing is insane.