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How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Data Egress Between Regions
Episode 80 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a quietly exploding cost center: inter-region data egress fees. Lucas and Luna examine how AWS, Azure, and GCP have converged on charging roughly $0.02 to $0.12 per gigabyte for moving data between cloud regions, and why that seemingly small number adds up to millions for global enterprises. The episode walks through a real Fortune 500 example where a multi-region Kubernetes deployment generated $3.7 million in egress charges over a single quarter—sparking a contract renegotiation that locked in an egress waiver. Lucas explains the…
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