Just as an example: Hetzner's dedicated servers, which start around US$30/month, come with unlimited 1gbit connections (really unlimited, not "unlimited until we decide to throttle you").

If you max out that connection non-stop, you can push about 330 TB/month. The same amount of bandwidth from EC2 would cost roughly US$20,000.

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud gives you 20TB free bandwidth a month for all its servers, including its €3.49/mo VMs.

They also offer comparatively much cheaper hardware, which is why I've been using them for all my heavy workloads for 8+ years.

Most are unlimited. But the ones where you have an actual bandwidth cap, it comes out at less than $5/TB (if we're including the machine itself), the bandwidth itself, probably less than $1/TB

Some bare metal providers have allocation based on server provisioning rather than specific egress limits. But CloudFront is cheaper with commit pricing because CF commit pricing is very very cheap and you have to factor in the cost of said reverse proxy nodes and only so much can be delivered per node. As you factor in management of the nodes it becomes even more favorable to the hyper scaler like CloudFront.

I have seen large scale deals where CloudFront comes in cheaper than what the smaller CDNs built on bare mantel can reasonably offer even with sizable commits.

Go to datapacket.com or hetzner.com for examples.

VPS providers like Vultr and Digital Ocean are a bit more but still a lot cheaper than the big three.

Bandwidth prices at the big clouds are ludicrously high.

$500/mo unlimited egress