You’ve interpreted the numbers wrong. Yes, Linode, DigitalOcean, and most of this class of providers charge $0.01/GB. Almost literally an order of magnitude less than Azure or AWS. The megaclouds massively overcharge for bandwidth. It’s not even close.

AWS charges $0.09/GB, and Azure charges $0.0875/GB.

Maybe Troy Hunt gets a discount for being a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. (Neither of which make him an employee of Microsoft, confusingly enough.)

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/billing/bandwidth/

https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-transfer/

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/