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Bandwidth and Egress Charges Explained for Cloud Hosting
How cloud data-transfer pricing works, why egress fees matter, how to estimate your monthly gigabytes and how to reduce transfer costs with caching and a CDN.
Estimate monthly data-transfer charges from the gigabytes you send out and a per-gigabyte price range.
Outbound data transfer, often called egress, is billed per gigabyte on most cloud platforms, while inbound traffic is usually free. This estimator multiplies the gigabytes you send out each month by a per-gigabyte price range and adds fixed network extras such as a load balancer, a NAT gateway or reserved public IP addresses.
Worked example with the defaults: 2,000 GB at 0.05 to 0.09 dollars per GB costs 100 to 180 dollars, and adding 25 dollars of fixed extras gives 125 to 205 dollars per month. If your provider includes an allowance, subtract that allowance from the gigabytes before you enter them. The price ranges in the menu are illustrative planning values only.
Limits: real pricing is often tiered, with the per-GB rate dropping at higher volumes, and it differs by region and destination. Check your provider's current data-transfer pricing page, and look at last month's traffic reports to get a realistic gigabyte figure.

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How cloud data-transfer pricing works, why egress fees matter, how to estimate your monthly gigabytes and how to reduce transfer costs with caching and a CDN.

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The charges that make cloud hosting bills higher than expected, including egress, IP addresses, snapshots, logging and support, with a review routine.