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A single 800Gbit/s port can do 259200000 GB a month. That's 5'184'000$ a month. Their traffic prices are ridiculous and there is no excuse for it.

You're not buying the gigabytes, you're buying the systems engineering that carries those gigabytes.

> you're buying the systems engineering

System engineering is not measured in dollars per byte transfered.

AWS engineers must be horrible because others are able to do it for at least an order of magnitude less.

Or they make more profit.