[jamesbr]

Cloud providers simply charge insane markups on very cheap bandwidth.

You or I can buy transit from e.g. he.net for ~$0.15/mbit/mo. 10Gbit transit @ $1500/mo will transfer 3PB/mo.

3PB egress on AWS = $157,491.11/mo.

[iptrans]

100G transit is even cheaper at $5k/month.

And that’s before you take into account you can do settlement free peering at Internet exchanges.