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Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Internal DNS Query Volume
Episode 118 of The Cloud Business Podcast: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure. Lucas and Luna break down how hyperscalers are quietly adding per-query charges for internal DNS lookups inside a cloud environment. We trace the roots of this change to a single AWS Direct Connect customer in early 2026 whose monthly Route 53 bill jumped 40 percent after a routine architecture review. The episode explains why DNS—once bundled as free glue—is now a line item, how Azure DNS Private Resolver and Google Cloud DNS peering zones fit into the trend, and what it means for companies running…
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