[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/