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Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Internal Load Balancer Throughput
Episode 102 of The Cloud Business Podcast: Lucas and Luna uncover a quiet but costly new clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts—metered internal load balancer throughput. Until recently, traffic between virtual networks inside a provider's data center was essentially free. Now AWS, Azure, and GCP are introducing per-gigabyte charges on internal load balancers, citing 'fair usage' and 'infrastructure sustainability.' Lucas breaks down the numbers: a company running 50 internal load balancers at 500 Mbps average throughput could see an extra $15,000 per month…
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