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Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% by ishitatsuyuki on Monday January 15, 2024 @06:39AM (#38999703)
GCP patched a similar loophole [1] in 2023 presumably because some of their customers were abusing it. I'd expect AWS to do the same if this becomes widespread enough.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing-announce#network

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Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% by rfoo on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:07AM (#39000473)
Unlikely. The "loophole" GCP patched was that you can use GCS to transfer data between regions on the same continent for free. This is already non-free on AWS. What OP mentioned is that transferring data between availability zones *in the same region* also costs $0.02 per GB and can be worked around.
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Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% by cedws on Monday January 15, 2024 @10:30AM (#39002033)
I know of a way to get data out of GCP for free, although I haven't tried it in practice. Wonder if I could find a buyer for this info ;)
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Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% by BonoboIO on Monday January 15, 2024 @12:06PM (#39003134)
I got one for Azure, where it would be nearly free to egress data from Azure to any other cloud provider or the internet.

It works, but i have no use case for it. 100TB egress to the internet costs about 7000$ ... i think, i could do it for 20$-50$.

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Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% by greyface- on Monday January 15, 2024 @05:20PM (#39006859)
A guess: tunnel through 169.254.169.254 DNS server?
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Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% by cedws on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:23PM (#39008270)
It's a good guess, but what I have in mind would have high bandwidth.
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Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% by Cthulhu_ on Monday January 15, 2024 @10:49AM (#39002233)
This doesn't feel like a loophole though, it feels like they have optimized S3 and intend your EC2 instances to use S3 as storage. But maybe not as transfer window, that is, they expect you to put and leave your data on there.
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