Cloudflare and Oracle Join Forces to Help Eliminate Data Transfer Fees

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The title of the article made me wonder how such diametrically opposite companies (in culture) are partnering together on this. Turns out the actual news is that Oracle is joining the Bandwidth Alliance.

"The Bandwidth Alliance is a group of forward-thinking cloud and networking companies that are committed to discounting or waiving data transfer (also known as bandwidth) fees for shared customers."

Is this essentially just agreeing to no paid private peering?

Yeah sounds like it.

This is really amazing.

Bandwidth fees are ridiculous because intuitively they should be dropping as the world becomes more interconnected.

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