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Eh? If you're delivering video at scale there's no way anybody is going to do that for free?

Whereas with AWS they charge you for traffic between AWS regions last time I checked?

They're not asking for free service, they're just noting that a claim of "free egress" might be a lie.

Any CDN that doesnt charge for egress (like cloudflare) will deliver your videos without charges.

Delivering video will instantly promote you to their business plan where you are charged

The CTO of Cloudflare denied that.

Afaik its allowed with R2.

> For example, a cloud streaming service that charges for video delivery by per minute streamed is just charging for egress with extra steps.

It's even worse than paying for egress because the cloud provider gets to capture any gains in compression technology, right?

You see egress with extra steps, I see billing for work relevant to my business and my customers