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> no egress charges to customers, but they still have to pay for transit when they cross an AS! Can somebody TL;DR what does being member of the "bandwidth all

• NicoJuicy 5y ago
  > what does being member of the "bandwidth alliance" mean? Cloud providers normally have huge profits on egress data ( outgoing) and not incoming data ( to attract giving them your data). This additionally incentives customers to stay within a certain cloud and not using competing products based on costs ( since egress costs to a 3rd party makes the price difference obsolete) Cloudflare ( i think) started the bandwidth alliance to make these prices more fair. As in: work together, have direct network connections and reduce customer billing. AWS didn't want to join as they are n°1 currently: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/