Keep in mind that when Amazon and other hosting companies buy bandwidth, it is symmetric: they don't pay a smaller rate for ingress than egress. Charging a lot

Keep in mind that when Amazon and other hosting companies buy bandwidth, it is symmetric: they don't pay a smaller rate for ingress than egress. Charging a lot for egress is just a way (IMO) to keep customers stuck on their platform, because migrating data to another provider is expensive.