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Is there a technical reason that cloud stores charge egress fees, or is it just purely "we want to disincentivize people from using competitors"?
by shay_ker 6y ago
Is there a technical reason that cloud stores charge egress fees, or is it just purely "we want to disincentivize people from using competitors"?
- jnwatson 6y agoI think it is to encourage write-once, read-rarely use cases like logs and backups, as opposed to serving web assets.
- onionjake 6y agoPrecisely. Although we also believe you shouldn't have to worry about going bankrupt if you ever need to restore all your data or want to migrate somewhere else, which is where the 100% egress of what you have stored comes from.
- EricE 6y agoWell data transfer isn't free - so they have to have some model to help cover that overhead. The roach motel model would be considered making lemonaide by marketing types - not sure as a customer I'd readily agree :/
- killingtime74 6y agoProfit. Its the Biggest part of the margin