Note: at no point in my comment did I say I thought the specific dollar amount of the bandwidth markup was reasonable or unreasonable. I pointed out reasons wh

Note: at no point in my comment did I say I thought the specific dollar amount of the bandwidth markup was reasonable or unreasonable. I pointed out reasons why differential bandwidth pricing for ingress/egress exists at the major cloud providers, when you claimed there were no technical reasons. Also note: VPS providers generally do not exist at the scale where they could or would pursue settlement-free peering. They buy transit from one (or, hopefully, more) upstream providers who have to worry about the first point I made. The VPS providers still have to worry about point #2, but they can do that by courting different kinds of customers, without the baggage (in the context of running a network) of a big legacy content distribution business that both Amazon and Google have.