[chasely]

Working at a startup that deals in large data (our storage is measured in PB), egress is the only thing thing that matters if we're going to choose a new storage provider. And an automated class management system a la S3 or GCS.

[huntaub]

I'm always surprised to hear that folks really think about egress costs. I think that's true if you're egressing across the internet for things like photos (i.e. if I'm embedding an image stored on S3 in my website), but for most use cases -- you should store your data in the object storage system that's in the same cloud as your compute to avoid those charges and performance penalties.

[chasely]

We're saying the same thing, really. Basically until AWS/GCP/Azure have minimal egress fees there is no way we can switch over to a different storage provider. They obviously know this so it will probably never happen.