[njitbew]

Oracle Cloud only charges a fraction of want Google, Microsoft, and Amazon charge. Any idea how Oracle is able to keep the cost so low? Or are the others just inflating the price so customers don’t move to the competitor? In that case Oracle deserves a shout out for not applying these vendor lock-in practices.

[andersa]

The large providers are overcharging between 10 and 100x on egress. Cloudflare has a blog on it somewhere.

[wongarsu]

Hetzner charges $1/TB. Oracle charges $7/TB, AWS $90/TB.

Oracle has probably really good margins on egress costs. With AWS/GCP/Azure the costs are absurd because for a lot of their customers it's not a big cost during operation, but makes moving data off cost prohibitive. It's simply a vendor lock-in mechanism for them.

[dilyevsky]

The margin on egress is insane. Oracle got into cloud late in the game and burned a lot of goodwill downmarket so they have to sacrifice that to play catchup

[pier25]

Egress is an artificial cost. Cloud providers don't pay for it.

[Culonavirus]

Well I'm sure there are some costs, but Google charging you an arm and a leg for traffic when they literally own multiple sea cables going around the world and a bazillion datacenters seems a bit sus...

[suyash]

Other are just charging what they are because people are too ignorant to complain/object and will just pay.

[vlovich123]

Egress prices have insane levels of markup.

[shell_game]

Oracle has other lock in practices lol… they don’t need to jack up egress fees.

[hacker_newz]

Oracle does not deserve a shout out for charging market rate for their service.