[tiernano]

I dont completely agree with the pricing, dont get me wrong, but i can see why they do it... You are not just paying for bandwidth. You are paying for the rest of the infrastructure. So, for example, in Azure's case (which is what we use in $dayjob) we get VNETs, NSGs (basic firewalls), Routes, DNS, IP Addressing, etc, plus then bandwidth. Yes, i would like the bandwidth bill to be cheaper, but you also need to look, again, in the case of Azure, of the rest of what they are offering in a global network and number of POPs around the world...

[idunno246]

This is the argument aws uses. In a dc you might need a bunch of high price Cisco equipment, and that’s part of what is getting priced into the bandwidth.

the cynical part of me agrees though that making moving out difficult/expensive is a large part of why too. Probably some combination of both