[notyourday]

> Even the huge-looking bill for Apple is only 6.5% of their total bill. Moving data into AWS is free, so it's not totally surprising that they pay for that by making other stuff more expensive

Moving data into any network that is outbound heavy is free because both paid peering and transit is settled based on a peak percentile traffic (unless it is flat rate).

That's why the "gansta" position is to have a balanced in/out for any network as in that case you get to effectively double charge for the same pipes -- your eyeball heavy customers pay for incoming and your web farm customers pay for outgoing.

[lacker]

This doesn't deserve to be downvoted, it makes a good point! I had not thought about the likely-to-be-outbound-heavy nature of cloud providers and how that affects things.