[Spooky23]

That's a half-truth.

All of the cloud vendors de-empathize network egress costs. It's similar to products that depend on Microsoft licensing who will always omit those types of costs. (Oh, so you needed to spend another $500k in SQL Server Enterprise?)

Many organizations lack the operational metrics to allow them to effectively measure their egress needs. And AWS/GCP/MS salesmen arent in the business of slowing down deals with awkward questions.

This is especially true where an org like NASA probably contracts out things like network services. Going from a model where you make fixed capital investments to paying for the byte is difficult to measure.

[Karunamon]

I'm not sure what you mean by "de-empathize".

Here's the official pricing calculator[1] - note that ingress and egress costs are included in all relevant services. Also note that for something like S3 (which is probably what the article mentions the "earthdata cloud" is based on), the pricing details are right there on the description page[2].

There is no evidence of any malfeasance by AWS here, just lots of casting aspersions. What specifically do you want that was not provided?

[1]: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/