I'd expect Amazon and Google to peer directly within US territory, one being a major byte-generator and another one being the largest byte-sucker. So this traf

I'd expect Amazon and Google to peer directly within US territory, one being a major byte-generator and another one being the largest byte-sucker. So this traffic must be almost as cheap as Amazon's own intra-territory exchange. Probably that's why they were being so nice. They probably are even somewhat happy to generate some more traffic directly for Google as the ratio is usually a leverage for the network guys. But, surely, it's still very cool of them to drop the customer's bill. I wonder, though, how was one ever to know that Google stripped their feedfetcher of even the basics of "intellect" and allowed one single spreadsheet to generate incoming 250 gigs hourly while not being open. So, after all it's Amazon's and Google poor designs that hammered the guy and a common business sense for Amazon to let it go for the customer and just study the case together with Google.