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Amazon gets away with high bandwidth pricing because almost all their customers are businesses with high revenue per byte served. If you want to serve large assets economically you have to look elsewhere.

Bandwidth on Oracle Cloud is $0.0085/GB with the first 10TB free each month, so this would have cost only $170. Alternatively bandwidth on Backblaze B2 costs $0.01/GB, but is free out to Cloudflare, so this traffic would have been completely free.

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I do recommend you spend some time looking at the quality Oracle provides. Their regions plug into transit providers (NTT, Level3, etc.) and their peering footprint is damn near non existent (they seem to be in the process of trying to fix it). Only reason I bring this up is try to send traffic to an eye ball network at peak on Oracle vs. Google/Azure/AWS at peak and you can see the difference in terms of packet loss / throughput. This is because those eyeball networks you have to be directly connected to since they run their transit hot at peak.

Agreed. I'll be honest that I am not a fan of Oracle as a company with their actions. But I'm more than willing to take advantage of their 2 free VMs with a total of 10TB of free egress traffic.

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