AWS Global network benchmark - Network Pricing

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Compared to Small and Medium Providers, the billing for outbound traffic is often considered complicated or opaque, even as a hidden cost. This is due to firstly a simple ignorance of the fact that traffic to the Internet has a cost and secondly the most hyperscalers applies a tiered billing involving decreasing cost as much as you consume.

The chart below express the pricing of the different AWS region to the Internet. It doesn't involve Locales Regions, nor special connection such as Direct Connect.

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The princing can be understood through 3 groups:

The main West business: European and Northern America
Various business centers: Such as Tokyo, Sydney, Middel East or Honk-kong
The expensive business centers: São Paulo, South Africa or Seoul

From the first to the last group, traffic cost is around the twice. Please note that AWS offers 100GB of monthly traffic for all your services and all regions except China and Gov-US.