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That would go a way towards understanding the over-inflated egress (bandwidth out) costs, if S3 did not already charge for disk reads.

S3 already have request pricing in place: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/#Request_Pricing

In addition to that, the pricing for "Data Transfer OUT From Amazon S3 To Internet" is exactly the same as for "Data Transfer OUT From Amazon EC2 To Internet", so this is not specific to S3 but to EC2 and AWS as a whole it seems.

AWS appear to have really expensive egress costs (or really profitable egress margins) compared to OVH and Hetzner. If so, then something is stuck, either the costs are not being addressed or the margins are not being passed on.



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