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No kidding! I live in a rural area, and have my own well with immense draw. The water is far better than bottled water.

AWS/cloud providers are like buying bottled water, instead of getting better stuff for effectively free. That's how cheap bandwidth is in reality. Free. AWS markup on bandwidth is insane. Immense. EG, 1 trillion times the cost, or some such.

(With AWS's size and scope, its peering capability, yes... 1 trillion times markup is likely conservative, for what they charge for bandwidth)

Most baremetal stuff is sold on the size of pipe, not on data transfer.