As others have pointed out, this view is extremely short sighted. To add to the mix - what if you need a multiple data-center deployment/replication? Both Amaz

As others have pointed out, this view is extremely short sighted. To add to the mix - what if you need a multiple data-center deployment/replication? Both Amazon and Google will provide you a greatly discounted traffic there $0.02 / $0.01. And that's only start. You can easily migrate from one data center to another, with no or little cost attached to it (try that in colo).