[Voultapher]

Seems to be a US thing, maybe their peering partners are forcing them to raise prices, the German DC still stells the 20TB bandwidth https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/, but US is an order of magnitude less for the same price :/

[inemesitaffia]

I don't see how traffic in Ashburn is more expensive than Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

It's the sort of place where people say Transit is cheaper than paid peering. (For eyeball networks at least).

I think carrying traffic from Europe for some images and videos might make sense financially. But there's always bulk CDN's

[kuschku]

> I don't see how traffic in Ashburn is more expensive than Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

The vast majority of Hetzner's traffic in europe (and tbh, anyone's traffic) is free peering. Telekom is the one major exception.