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The aws and other cloud vendors markup on bandwidth is probably at least 50x. It is their moat. If they lower it their big spenders like snowflake will leave for their own datacenters


I don't get it. How is a huge markup on a commodity product their "moat" or protection against clients leaving?

I am one of their clients and I am leaving due to it.


Once you are in the roach motel the path of least resistance is to buy other services from AWS rather than the competitors because of the egress charges. It is completely anticompetitive and I expect even the toothless US antitrust authorities will crack down on that.




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