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sitkack on Sept 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model

I mean come on, Google's egress is free. They lease their dark fiber to run backbone links and telecoms. How much do they pay to egress YT?

sieabah on Sept 30, 2021 [–]

What are you talking about? It's absolutely not free at all.

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing

https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#network-pricing

The only thing that is free is between nodes of the same zone using specifically the internal IPs.

apendleton on Sept 30, 2021 | [–]

I think they meant it's essentially free to Google, making charging so much for it especially egregious.

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