“Hey, look at Cloudflare, should we reduce egress costs?”
“Absolutely not, but let’s make a free tier change and hope that fewer people hassle us about that”
It’s a signal that they’re digging in on the price structure.
"Hey should we build our company on cloudflare? Their egress cost is cheaper"
"No, AWS has far more features and besides, we get enough bandwidth for free because we're a small startup"
Fast forward 5 years, your company has grown and is buying a 10 terabytes a month of egress, but you can't switch platforms now, you're too far dug in and integrated with AWS.
Let's be clear, you can build a functional startup on AWS free of charge assuming you at least have a valid credit card.
The .01% who eventually become enterprise clients aren't going to complain.
For high volume customers this isn't going to make a huge difference. For many who were considering Cloudflare, it could mean their service is now free.