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Been wondering the same. GCP recently increased their egress pricing, and was expecting AWS to follow.

So far, haven't seen any other notable cloud price increases. Thought for sure they'd be reevaluating by now, I'm surprised to see the stability.

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We increased our prices - for the first time in 21 years - last week.

The increase was 25% and was, of course, mainly due to hard drive prices.

Egress pricing? That's one of their highest margin products! Compute is the one that's being squeezed!

It's almost 100% profit actually, because ISPs are willing to pay to be connected to Google network

A ton of cloud workloads are still running on old Haswell-era CPUs with RAM that was bought a decade+ ago. Probably the costs will be made up with new VM shapes.

> GCP recently increased their egress pricing

The peering announcement or did I miss something?

I doubt this has to do with the hardware discussion. This is just them increasing their lock-in and trying to curb businesses running to other CDNs (whole point of the peering).

Graviton 5 is 9% more expensive than previous generation https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/06/11/gravito... which isnt strictly an increase but shows direction.

Graviton has had a price increase nearly every generation. So not really related.

AWS now has unmetered egress, but it's pretty expensive. A 10G port is $8k a month.

Got some info about this?

Here: https://aws.amazon.com/interconnect/multicloud/ - it's rolling out in us-east-1, and will come to other regions.

Free for 500Mbps huh? But it only connects to certain other clouds, not the internet.

I believe so? It connects to Internet, as long as you have a physical presence in a datacenter that is connected to one of their partners.

So you connect AWS to Oracle and connect Oracle to some colo and have a server at that colo and get internet access there and then you're done?

Probably still cheaper than AWS egress

No, they support direct interconnect: https://aws.amazon.com/interconnect/lastmile/

So you just need to be present in one of their DCs.

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