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Egress

Data leaving a cloud or region, typically billed at a premium and a major hidden cost in AI pipelines.

Current numbers

$0.087/GBAzure internet egress, first paid tier (next 10 TB after 100 GB free); list price, negotiated rates loweras of 2026 · register ↗
$0.12/GiBGoogle Cloud Premium Tier internet egress, first 1 TiB/month; list price, negotiated rates loweras of 2026 · register ↗
70–80%source-modeled egress share for a standard weekly-retrain scenario (74% AWS / 78% Azure / 79% GCP)as of 2026 · register ↗

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