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networking
99 articles on networking — what drives the cost, how it is priced, and where the savings actually are.
gcpnetworkingegress
GCP network egress cost explained: ingress is free, everything out costs
GCP charges for egress to the internet, between regions, and even between zones, but not ingress or same-zone traffic. Here's the egress map, the three patterns that drive the bill, and how to cut it.
The C3X Team··8 min read
awsload-balanceralb
ALB vs NLB cost: why they're nearly identical and what actually drives the bill
ALB and NLB both cost ~$16.43/month to exist plus LCU/NLCU usage at ~$0.006-0.008 per unit-hour. The price difference is small, the real lever is the LCU dimension your traffic stresses and how many balancers you run.
The C3X Team··7 min read
awsdata-transfernetworking
AWS data transfer costs explained
The most opaque part of the AWS bill, broken down. Internet egress, cross-region, cross-AZ, NAT processing, CloudFront, VPC endpoints. The five biggest cost surprises and how to fix them.
The C3X Team··11 min read