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The Next Frontier in Cloud Contracts Is Bandwidth Reservation
Lucas and Luna mark episode 100 by exploring a new clause quietly appearing in enterprise cloud agreements: committed bandwidth reservations. Unlike standard data egress fees, these provisions lock in minimum throughput levels between specific regions for a fixed term, with steep penalties for underutilisation. The hosts walk through a concrete case — a mid-stage fintech that signed a three-year, 10 Gbps committed link between AWS us-east-1 and eu-west-1 — and explain why this shifts cost risk from the provider to the customer. They compare it to how airlines overbook seats and how AWS's…
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