[CodesInChaos]

Does that mean that reading a 100kB file from within the datacenter where the object is stored costs the same serving a 5TB file to an external consumer?

(I already found S3's per-request pricing weird for reading big files, but at least there it's limited to internal traffic not egress)

[edmundsauto]

I would flip it - serving a 5TB file externally is now as cheap as reading a 100kb file. Bandwidth is now free. This might be the old "commoditize your complement" since AWS makes so much money/margin on their b/w.