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by Dylan16807 296 days ago
It being low level is not an excuse for systems that lead people down the wrong path.

And the traffic never even reaches the public internet. There's a mismatch between what the billing is supposedly for and what it's actually applied to.

> do you expect AWS to show you different meters for billed and not-billed traffic, but performance still depends on the sum total of the traffic (S3 and Internet egress) passing through it?

Yes.

> How is that not confusing?

That's how network ports work. They only go so fast, and you can be charged based on destination. I don't see the issue.

> It's also besides the point that not all NAT gateways are used for Internet egress

Okay, if two NAT gateways talk to each other it also should not have egress fees.

> some kind of implicit built-in S3 gateway violates assumptions

So don't do that. Checking if the traffic will leave the datacenter doesn't need such a thing.