Yep. Big cloud bandwidth is a 200X markup from list price. Its ludicrous.
It serves two purposes for them. One is obviously a nice profit center. The other is that free ingress but expensive egress causes data to flow in but not out, creating a center of gravity and a form of lock in.
It serves two purposes for them. One is obviously a nice profit center. The other is that free ingress but expensive egress causes data to flow in but not out, creating a center of gravity and a form of lock in.