Data egress costs can exceed compute costs for data-heavy applications. Here's how to reduce them.
AWS charges $0.08-0.12/GB for data egress. At 100TB/month, that's $8,000-12,000 — often more than compute. Strategies: CDN for static content (-80% egress), regional deployment to keep data local, data compression (-30-50%), VPC endpoints for intra-cloud traffic (free).
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