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Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% · Bits and Cloud

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There are lots of ways to accidentally spend too much money on AWS, and one of the easiest ways is by carelessly transferring data. As of writing, AWS charges the following rates for data transfer: Data transfer from AWS to the public Internet ranges from $0.09/GB in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) to $0.154/GB in af-south-1 (Cape Town). Therefore a single terabyte of data transfer will run you a cool $90 - $154. Data transfer from one AWS region to another - e.g. if you were to transfer data from us-east-1 to any other region - ranges from $0.02/GB in us-east-1 to $0.147/GB in af-south-1 (more than seven times as much!). Therefore a single terabyte of transferred data that never leaves AWS’s network will run you $20 - $147. In both of these transfers, you’re only paying for egress fees - i.e. you’re paying for data that leaves AWS regions, and not for incoming data. But now we’ll look at one of the trickier data transfer rates: These prices are similar between all major cloud providers. Data

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