I’ve had people refuse to believe that bandwidth is actually very cheap and cloud markup is insane (hundreds or even thousands of times cost).

I show them bare metal providers and colo that bills by size of pipe rather than transfer. They refuse to believe it or assume there must be a catch. There usually isn’t, though sometimes the very cheapest skimp on things like rich peering and can be slightly slower or less reliable. But still cheapest is relative here. Expensive bare metal or colo bandwidth is still usually hundreds of times less than big three cloud egress.

It’s just nuts.

It’s a subset of a wider problem of multiple generations of developers being fully brainwashed by “cloud native” in lots of ways. What an amazing racket this all has been for providers…