[staticassertion]

> Data Transfer from AWS Regions to the Internet

This only applies to the free tier, which you age out of after a year. Who even cares? Or am I misreading this?

They can do a lot better than this.

edit: It appears that the regional transfer doesn't age out either, even though it isn't explicitly stated in this post (whereas they did state so for Cloudfront).

[beheh]

> Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month (up from 50 GB), and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup.

[staticassertion]

Right, that's why I quoted the other section.

[beheh]

My bad, I thought you were quoting the article title. I see it's been cleared up in other replies now.

[Hamuko]

Not everything in the free tier expires after 12 months. Some remain always free.

Even now you should be getting 1 GB of free out traffic on your older-than-12-months AWS account.

[staticassertion]

I found it very unclear because the next section explicitly states that, in the case of Cloudfront traffic, it won't age out. But they don't make that statement about the regional traffic.

[Hamuko]

I'm guessing that's because the regional traffic never aged out before.

[awsthro00945]

You're misreading it. Only some parts of the free tier "age out". Other parts of the free tier are free forever (it's really stupidly confusing). The things announced in this announcement are free forever.

[staticassertion]

Thanks, that wasn't clear to me. I'll edit my post.

[awsthro00945]

It's stupidly confusing because the regional transfer of 1GB free per month isn't technically part of the "Free Tier" as advertised on this page [0], it's just part of the normal egress pricing model of the individual services [1] [2]. So I guess really this announcement post is misleading/confusing because the regional transfer increase is just a change in the normal pricing model, not the "Free Tier"... but really that's just semantics. AWS really needs to fix the "Free Tier" to make it less confusing.

0: https://aws.amazon.com/free/

1: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

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

[staticassertion]

Thanks, really appreciate the detail. Edited my post.