I thought I could save money by hosting some backend services in-house but soon realized it ended up being more expensive than EC2 solely because of the egress

I thought I could save money by hosting some backend services in-house but soon realized it ended up being more expensive than EC2 solely because of the egress fees. So whether or not Amazon intended it that way, it functions as something that’s anti-competitive because it forces you to go all-in with AWS.