Cloudflare on Friday accused competitor Amazon Web Services of massive markups and hindering customer data portability, even as it invited the cloud s

Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club

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2021-07-24 11:30:04

Cloudflare on Friday accused competitor Amazon Web Services of massive markups and hindering customer data portability, even as it invited the cloud services giant to join its discount data initiative known as the Bandwidth Alliance.

"AWS’s bandwidth pricing is bonkers," said CEO Matthew Prince, via Twitter. "And they stand alone in the industry not discounting when their customers send traffic to peered networks."

Prince and Nitin Rao, SVP of global infrastructure at Cloudflare, elaborated on that claim in a blog post that argues AWS is charging customers orders of magnitude more than its costs and makes a mockery of its parent company's mission statement that Amazon strives "to offer our customers the lowest possible prices…"

In particular, Prince and Rao take issue with cloud giant's egress data transfer, or bandwidth, pricing – what it charges to send data to external networks.

"During the last ten years, industry wholesale transit prices have fallen an average of 23 per cent annually," explain Prince and Rao. "Compounded over that time, wholesale bandwidth is 93 per cent less expensive than 10 years ago. However, AWS’s egress fees over that same period have fallen by only 25 per cent."