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."
They further note that since 2018, the egress fees AWS charges in North America and Europe have remained unchanged while wholesale prices in those markets have gone down by more than half.