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Why Cloud Contracts Now Lock in Network Peering Commitments
Episode 50 of The Cloud Business Podcast explores a quiet revolution in enterprise cloud contracts: network peering commitments. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are now demanding multi-year, minimum-spend agreements for direct peering and dedicated interconnects. The hosts walk through a concrete case: how a mid-sized fintech company, NexusPay, negotiated a 500 gigabit per second peering deal with Azure, with a clause that allowed them to roll unused bandwidth into compute credits. Lucas explains the driver—data gravity and AI training traffic—and why…
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