These costs are not only on egress traffic to the internet, but also on other ways to get data out of AWS. For example, the snowball appliance that is basically

These costs are not only on egress traffic to the internet, but also on other ways to get data out of AWS. For example, the snowball appliance that is basically a pile of hard drives that can be shipped to AWS has free ingress, but costs a few cents per GB for egress [0]. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/