[unclebucknasty]

>That's why I said 'virtually'.

I hear you, and that is an egregious margin. Just wondering if part of their bandwidth pricing calculation is driven by a goal of constraining their infrastructure costs (or other considerations beyond profit). I'm actually wondering this exactly because it is so egregious.

There is of course a thing wherein if something is free people mindlessly use it. If all AWS customers did this with bandwidth, I wonder how it would impact total usage and AWS's subsequent infrastructure considerations.

I'm no fan of their pricing and I'm sure there's an unhealthy dose of greed in there. Your phrasing just prompted me to consider what other factors might also be involved. And, if part of the rationale is actually to influence customer behavior with disincentives, then by definition there would have to be some pain involved.

[martinald]

No. It's pure margin. OVH and Hertzner et al offer "realistic" bandwidth pricing and they are all fine.

I am almost certain there will be some sort of cartel investigation into this pricing between the big cloud players.