Why are cloud egress fees so expensive?

Hyperscale cloud providers charge premium bandwidth rates ($0.05 to $0.09 per GB) for data leaving their networks to the public internet, creating vendor lock-in for data-intensive workloads.

How does Cloudflare R2 provide zero egress fees?

Cloudflare operates its own global edge network and is a member of the Bandwidth Alliance, waiving data transfer out (DTO) charges entirely for S3-compatible object storage.

Cloud Egress & Data Transfer Cost Estimator

Model data transfer out (DTO) charges across major clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and compare zero-egress alternatives.

Monthly Outbound Data (GB or TB)

Data Unit

Transfer Destination

Comparative Cloud Provider Egress Bill Tiered Volume Rates

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

$810.00

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

$765.00

Microsoft Azure

$783.00

Cloudflare R2 / Hetzner

$0.00 (Zero Egress)

💰 Egress Optimization: Routing static assets or video delivery through Cloudflare R2, Fastly, or Wasabi can save up to 100% of egress fees compared to native AWS S3 or GCP Cloud Storage.

Understanding Cloud Data Transfer & Egress Fees

Egress pricing is a tiered consumption model charged when data leaves a provider's data center boundary. While data ingestion (ingress) is universally free across hyperscalers, data transfer out (DTO) to the internet or across regions incurs steep fees.

Average Cloud Egress Pricing Tiers (per GB)

Monthly Egress Tier	AWS EC2/S3	Google Cloud	Azure Bandwidth	Cloudflare R2
First 100 GB / month	$0.00 (Free Tier)	$0.00 (Free Tier)	$0.00 (Free Tier)	$0.00 (Free)
Up to 10 TB / month	$0.09 / GB	$0.085 / GB	$0.087 / GB	$0.00 (Free)
Next 40 TB / month	$0.085 / GB	$0.08 / GB	$0.083 / GB	$0.00 (Free)
Next 100 TB / month	$0.07 / GB	$0.06 / GB	$0.07 / GB	$0.00 (Free)