What does your cloud egress actually cost?

Egress — sending your own data out to your users — is the line that scales with your success, not your features. Enter your monthly volume and see the real, sourced number on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, next to what the same bytes cost elsewhere.

On AWS, sending 50 TB/month out costs about

$4,403/mo · $52,838/yr

~$0.086/GB blended

The same bytes elsewhere, per month:

  • Cloudflare R2 — $0 · No egress fees; S3-compatible. Storage billed separately (~$15/TB-mo).
  • bunny.net CDN — $256–$512 · Volume-network pricing, ~$0.005–0.01/GB; excellent for media.
  • OVH / Hetzner flat box — $0 · Generous-to-unlimited transfer included; dedicated boxes are unmetered.

Want this costed against your real bill?

Drop your email and I'll send back a one-page breakdown — your egress line, the cheaper alternatives, and an honest note on whether moving it actually pays off for your setup.

Read by me, never shared. Figures use public provider rates, as of 2026-06-15 — the same sourced data behind the cost pages.

Why egress is the line that grows with you

Storage and compute have list prices you can shop on. Egress is different: AWS has held it near $0.09/GB since 2018 while wholesale bandwidth more than halved — it's a moat, not a cost. It also scales with traffic, so the more your product succeeds, the bigger this invisible line gets. A flat-rate box or a zero-egress store (Cloudflare R2, a CDN in front) doesn't charge per gigabyte, so the savings compound as you grow. More on that in The meter you can't see, the full cost calculators, and the head-to-head comparisons.