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> Ok, so here is my proof that the "tier 1" networks are over charging: if Backblaze routes a packet over the "tier 1" network is comes down to about 2/10ths of 1 penny per GByte. That's $0.002/GByte.

That roughly matches the information I've been able to find when looking into transit pricing.

And then AWS/Azure/GCP gouge you to an absolutely ridiculous extent even beyond that.

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You'll likely see prices in the same range with most providers if you have some volume and are willing to commit to it.

By "most" do you mean excluding those three? I know it's not too hard to get a port at a good rate if I have my own server, and it's easy to rent a server with plenty of bandwidth. But if I want to use something like glacier, I'm screwed. Amazon's "contact us" threshold is $28k per month, and anyone under that is paying 30x-40x as much as if it was $.002/GB.

Cant speak for others, but there are some specialized SKUs in Azure you can opt, for non-metered egress data transfer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressr...

It starts about USD 1200 per month, for a 1 Gbps line.

That's still price gouging imho. For the same amount of money you can get 5-10G of transit bandwidth from large carriers.

How can it be cheaper for the big carriers to transport my packets halfway around the planet than for Microsoft to transport them inside the local metro-region to their own datacenter?

Data transfer within a region is already free, and that service won't send the data any further.

So I'm paying $1200 a month just to plug in a single low-speed cable. It's an awful price.

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