AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN (opens in new tab)

For what it's worth, we run "edge compute" with two separate mid-sized CDNs and pay about $0.005 per GB. This required a bit of negotiation, but has no minimum commitment and is on a monthly term. Yes, even lower fees can be had if you build your own infrastructure and pay for bandwidth on a CDR, but this is a fairly apples-for-apples case where we are not doing that.

So yes, AWS, GCP, Azure bandwidth pricing is very high. Oracle is, amazingly, the outlier with lower bandwidth pricing.

I wouldn't be surprised if data transfer fees as a percentage of their total revenue account for >10%. As long as GCP (standard tier 0.085) and Azure (0.08 non-MS-backhaul standard routing) don't charge extremely lower rates, it's not beneficial to lower their rate.

How about the price of EBS volumes as well? I believe the price for gp2 has been $0.10/GB (USE1) since 2014 and gp3 only reduced the price slightly.

I agree. Why is this an hourly charge? Same for endpoints in a private subnet.

Are there actual compute resources necessary to make endpoints and nat gateways work?

You are singing my song here...