Amazon Web Services has fallen in line with the European Union’s Data Act, announcing at the beginning of March that it has instantly scrapped all egress fees—i.e. charges related to moving data out of AWS—for its customers across the globe. This comes two months after Google did the same, and now all eyes are on Microsoft Azure. Egress fees are understandably unpopular, as they are often billed at rates far exceeding their actual cost. AWS rival Cloudflare is not silent about this, estimating in 2021 that Amazon customers in the US, Canda, and Europe were paying 80 times what the bandwidth for external transfers cost AWS. The move is not totally surprising, given that more than 90% of AWS customers…