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Why Cloud Bills Now Charge for Cross-AZ Data Transfer
This week Lucas and Luna explore the quiet line item on every cloud invoice: cross-availability-zone data transfer fees. It's a charge many teams don't budget for until it lands on the bill, and it can double the cost of a Kubernetes cluster or a microservices rollout. They break down the pricing model — roughly a cent per gigabyte out of a zone — and why it exists in the first place, from the physical reality of long-haul fiber to the way cloud providers design for failure domains. They walk through a real example of a regional e-commerce company that accidentally racked up forty…
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