Why Public Cloud Providers Are Cutting Egress Fees
InfoWorld, Friday, March 15th, 2024
Enterprise IT sees these fees as arbitrary and annoying, and cloud providers are taking notice. However, it's not all about customer goodwill.
Public cloud providers are often loathed for charging data transfer or 'egress fees' for removing data from a specific cloud provider. If you move data out of a cloud provider, there's a cost; for instance, you move inventory data from an inventory system residing in a public cloud provider to a supply chain system on premises or perhaps even on another public cloud provider.
This is the number one complaint about cloud providers that I hear. The fee is thought of as arbitrary and counterproductive to using the cloud with systems that exist outside of a specific provider. In some cases, it's a reason applications are not in a cloud today.