In AWS's defense, their egress pricing covers basically 100% of the cost of networking for their whole platform. VPC, ingress, and many other features and servi

In AWS's defense, their egress pricing covers basically 100% of the cost of networking for their whole platform. VPC, ingress, and many other features and services roll up under that bill. On that basis I have to disagree with the analysis in this post. However, their main point is well-made, its a lopsided agreement that traps customer's data where in some cases its just not affordable to leave. Its not well known to customers until they face the bill... there was a story of a giant data project at NASA where they were planning to store hundreds of petabytes of data on AWS, but neglected to account for the costs of egress which through the entire project into peril: https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/19/nasa_cloud_data_migration_mess/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/19/nasa_cloud_data_migra...