Comments on: No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/12/no-more-roach-motels-for-data-in-the-clouds/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:07:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/12/no-more-roach-motels-for-data-in-the-clouds/#comment-219228 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 04:01:09 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143494#comment-219228 In reply to Gabriel Ramuglia.

Thanks for the insight. Appreciate it.

]]> By: Gabriel Ramuglia https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/12/no-more-roach-motels-for-data-in-the-clouds/#comment-219118 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:29:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143494#comment-219118 Ingress costs less in hosting partly because networks are full duplex and inbound is used less than outbound for most servers.

However, the true cost of egress is about 2-5 cents per 100GB transferred, vs the 5+ cents per 1GB transferred cloud providers charge.

You can get these kinds of prices from major backbone internet providers like Cogent, HE.net, Tata, Telia Sonera, NTT, Level3, etc.

In other words, Amazon’s lowest price for egress is 200 times the real cost. That should be the real headline here — not that ingress is free. Ingress probably should be free because it costs almost nothing to provide, while egress fees should be reduced by 99%.

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