[toomuchtodo]

Bandwidth is very cheap [1], cloud providers gouge. Cloudflare is using this product to disrupt other cloud providers and pull business from them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682237

[foobiekr]

Yes basically. In networking everybody except for people living on a CSP buy bandwith/ports not bits moved. AWS egress is fabulously profitable specifically because they’re ripping you off vs even a very expensive colo.