Cloud provider bandwidth pricing:<p><pre><code> Google Cloud [1]: $0.105/GB (max) - $0.06/GB (min)
AWS [2]: $0.09/GB (max) - $0.05/GB (min)
Azure [3]: $0.087/GB (max) - $0.05/GB (min)
Linode [4]: $0.02/GB
DigitalOcean [5]: $0.01/GiB
Cloudflare [6]: Freemium (but they can suspend you without warning)
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In comparison, I pay ~60$/Month for 1Gbit/s up/down internet at home, which means ~$0.0002/GB, which is 300x cheaper than Google Cloud's bandwidth.<p>How is this possible? Is it purely because of the top trio's market dominance? Or competitors are just taking the loss to get attract customers?<p><pre><code> [1] https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
[3] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/
[4] https://www.linode.com/community/questions/11427/bandwidth-charging
[5] https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/accounts/billing/bandwidth/
[6] https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can-cloudflare-offer-a-free-cdn-with-unlimited-bandwidth</code></pre>
There has been some fruitful discussion at r/devops: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/eo43oz/why_googleawsazures_bandwidth_is_10x_more/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/eo43oz/why_googleaw...</a>