Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
What you can do about it is go back to the early 2000s and rack up your own boxes in a colo, with some reasonable unmetered bandwidth allocations, and skip the whole &quot;cloud&quot; nonsense.<p>My personal box is a 6C&#x2F;12T Xeon from a few years back, 128GB ECC RAM, and about 24TB usable disk plus 2TB NVMe, for running a lot of other VMs that I run actual services in (remote backup, my web presence, communications, game servers, the works).  Then a 25Mbit&#x2F;100Mbit burst connection at a local datacenter for a bit over $100&#x2F;mo.<p>A 12vCPU&#x2F;96GB RAM GCE N2 box with similar specs as my box is about $1800&#x2F;mo.  So... given that &quot;a few months of cloud spend&quot; buys my system, I genuinely don&#x27;t see the case for &quot;cloud&quot; if you&#x27;re using a lot of data, or a lot of RAM, or a lot of CPU.  Yes, it&#x27;s managed and convenient, but it&#x27;s <i>horridly</i> expensive for what you get compared to &quot;owning your own hardware.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d been spending quite a bit more a month on various cloud instances to do the same thing I do with my server.