AWS Data Transfer Pricing 2026: Egress Fees Compared with Azure, Google Cloud and More

AWS charges $0.09 per GB ^S01 for the first tier of data transfer out to the internet from us-east-1, after a free 100 GB each month ^S01.

As of 2026-10-11, 10 TB a month from a US region costs $891.00 on AWS, $861.30 on Azure (Microsoft network route) and $1,034.69 on Google Cloud (Premium Tier to North America) ^derived. Cloudflare R2 and Oracle Cloud charge $0.00 for the same 10 TB, as do Backblaze B2 and Wasabi with 10 TB stored ^derived. These are egress charges only, in USD list prices, and 1 TB here is 1,000 GB.

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Key findings

• AWS charges $0.09 per GB ^S01 for the first tier of data transfer out from us-east-1. eu-central-1 has the same four tiers and prices ^S02.
• Azure charges $0.087 per GB ^S10 after the first 100 GB on the Microsoft network route from East US, and $0.08 per GB ^S10 on the Internet routing preference route.
• Google Cloud Premium Tier charges $0.12 per GiB ^S16 for the first 1,024 GiB from us-east4 to North America. Standard Tier charges $0.085 per GiB ^S16 after 200 GiB free.
• 10 TB a month from a US region costs $891.00 on AWS, $861.30 on Azure (Microsoft network route) and $1,034.69 on Google Cloud (Premium Tier) ^derived.
• At 10 TB, Google Cloud Standard Tier costs $774.62 and Azure’s Internet routing preference costs $792.00 ^derived.
• Oracle Cloud includes 10 TB a month of outbound data ^S21, then charges $0.0085 per GB ^S22 for traffic that starts in North America, Europe or the UK.
• Cloudflare states ^S23 that egress from R2 storage to the internet is free, though other metered services connected to a bucket may charge.
• Backblaze states ^S24 that B2 gives free egress up to 3 times average monthly storage, then charges $0.01 per GB ^S24.
• Wasabi states no egress fees ^S26, with a guideline that monthly egress stays at or below active storage ^S27.
• The EU Data Act removes switching charges ^S50 from 12 January 2027 (Article 29(1)). It still allows cost-based egress charges for parallel use (Article 34(2)).
• AWS asks for a request two months before a switch ^S05 and Azure credits at most 60 calendar days of charges ^S14 under their leaving programmes.
• Akamai Cloud, Hetzner Cloud (EU and US) and OVHcloud (Asia-Pacific) overage prices were not retrieved, so no figure is given for them ^{S33 S37 S34}.

AWS data transfer pricing

AWS prices data transfer out to the internet per GB. Its price file counts a TB as 1,024 GB and does not say how many bytes a GB holds, so this page reads a GB as 10^9 bytes ^derived. The price list used here was published on 2026-09-16, with a term effective 2026-06-01 ^S01.

The price per 1,000 GB is the price per GB times 1,000 ^derived. us-east-1 (US East, N. Virginia) and eu-central-1 (EU, Frankfurt) carry the same prices ^S02.

The 100 GB allowance is global. It applies once across all AWS services and Regions except China and GovCloud, not separately to each Region ^{S03 S04}. This page counts the tier boundaries after the allowance, because AWS describes the first tier as beyond the global free tier ^S01. The other reading changes nothing at 10 TB and differs by $0.50 a month at 50 TB ^derived.

Tier thresholds count combined usage across a list of AWS services ^S03, including EC2, S3, RDS and CloudWatch Logs. The calculator prices one stream. AWS’s pricing page asks customers moving more than 500 TB a month to contact it ^S03. The price list’s last tier has no upper limit ^S01. The calculator does not compute AWS or Azure costs above 500 TB. Eligible EU customers may request reduced rates under the European Data Act ^S03. CloudFront has its own free allowance of 1 TB a month and is outside this page ^S04.

AWS egress cost at 1, 10 and 50 TB

At 10 TB, AWS bills 9,900 GB, which is 10,000 GB minus the 100 GB free. The charge is 9,900 GB times $0.09, or $891.00 ^derived. At 1 TB the charge is $81.00, and at 50 TB it is $4,292.70 ^derived. The 50 TB figure is 10,240 GB at $0.09 plus 39,660 GB at $0.085 ^derived. The comparison section below shows all providers at the same three volumes.

Azure egress cost

Azure prices data transfer out per GB and states 1 TB = 1,000 GB on its pricing page ^S13. The first 100 GB a month is free to all customers in all regions ^S13. Azure has two routes: its Microsoft network (Microsoft Premium Global Network) and the Internet routing preference route through transit ISPs. The tables use East US. West Europe has the same ladder ^S11.

The pricing page labels the tiers in round TB steps and calls its prices estimates ^S13. The Retail Prices API gives numeric tier starts that differ from those labels on the Microsoft network route. This page uses the API starts ^S10. The tier rows show effective dates in 2022, and they are the current API prices as retrieved on 2026-10-11. Reading the page labels instead lowers the 50 TB cost by $0.94 a month and changes nothing at 10 TB ^derived. The Internet routing preference route matches in both sources.

At 10 TB, Azure charges 9,900 GB times $0.087, which is $861.30 on the Microsoft network route ^derived. On the Internet routing preference route it charges 9,900 GB times $0.08, which is $792.00 ^derived. In the Azure all-regions price file ^S12, 30 of the 78 region keys carry the East US ladder ^derived.

For Europe, Azure offers at-cost transfer to customers and CSP partners who move data to another data processing provider over the internet ^S15. The page does not state the at-cost rate, so no figure is given.

GCP egress pricing

Google Cloud prices per GiB, a unit of 2^30 bytes, which is 1.073741824 GB ^derived. Premium Tier is the default and prices by source region and destination group ^S16. Standard Tier prices by source region ^S17. The table shows Premium Tier from us-east4 (Northern Virginia). Every price in the table is per GiB.

The first GiB each month is free from us-central1 (Iowa) to four destination groups, and from us-east4 to Asia only ^S16. The page shows no free first GiB from the Frankfurt region ^S16. This page shows each region as published. Standard Tier prices are the same in the three regions recorded ^S16: us-east4, us-central1 and europe-west3.

The Standard Tier allowance is 200 GiB a month per account, across all regions, on the pricing page ^S16. A 2023 Google blog post (dated) says 200 GB is available independently in each region ^S20. This page uses the pricing page. If the blog reading held, each extra region would add $17 a month of free transfer ^derived. Google’s pricing page says to contact sales for Standard Tier pricing beyond 500 TiB ^S16.

At 10 TB, 10,000 GB is 9,313.23 GiB ^derived. Premium Tier from us-east4 to North America costs 1,024 GiB at $0.12 plus 8,289.23 GiB at $0.11, which is $1,034.69 ^derived. From us-central1 the figure is $1,034.57 ^derived. Standard Tier costs (9,313.23 minus 200) GiB at $0.085, which is $774.62 ^derived.

Egress fees compared: 10 TB a month from a US region

The chart and tables compare the egress charge only, from a US region, in USD per month. Costs for volume-priced providers are after free allowances. Costs for overage-priced providers are the overage above a free pool or ratio. Each volume is converted into the provider’s own unit before pricing, and the order of rows is not a ranking.

Four providers tie at $0.00 for 10 TB: Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Oracle Cloud and Wasabi. B2 and Wasabi are free only while stored data is large enough, and 10 TB stored is assumed. Among the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud rows, Google Cloud Standard Tier is $774.62 and Google Cloud Premium Tier is $1,034.69 ^derived. Singapore is not a US region, and Hetzner US and EU overage prices were not retrieved.

Wasabi at 50 TB with 10 TB stored is not computed. Egress is above stored data, and Wasabi publishes no overage price ^S27. At 50 TB, AWS costs $4,292.70, Azure on the Microsoft network $4,182.64 and Google Cloud Premium Tier $4,042.73 ^derived. Google’s top Premium tier starts at 10,240 GiB at $0.08 per GiB ^S16.

Egress price per GB by volume tier

The chart converts every tier to USD per decimal GB, using each provider’s own tier boundaries. AWS boundaries are shifted up by the 100 GB allowance. Google Cloud tiers are converted from GiB. Price per decimal GB is the stated price divided by the GB in one billing unit ^derived.

Zero egress fees and included transfer

Some providers state no egress charge, a free allowance or transfer included with a plan. The four below are Oracle Cloud, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2 and Wasabi. Each term has a condition, and the table gives it in the provider’s words where it matters.

Backblaze also offers unlimited free egress to and through partner CDNs and compute services, which the page lists by name ^S24. The calculator needs your stored data to price the B2 and Wasabi rows.

Plan-included transfer: DigitalOcean, Hetzner Cloud, Akamai Cloud and OVHcloud

DigitalOcean bills $0.01 per GiB ^S31 beyond the transfer included with Droplet plans. The allowance is pooled across all Droplets in a team ^S31. App Platform is a different product at $0.02 per GiB ^S31 and is not modelled.

The seven Basic Droplet plans on the pricing page include 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 and 6,000 GiB a month ^S30. On the same page ^S30, the smallest pool belongs to the 512 MiB plan at $4 a month and the largest to the 16 GiB plan at $96 a month.

Hetzner Cloud bills only outgoing traffic, according to its billing FAQ ^S29. The FAQ was last changed on 2020-07-07, so it is dated. Hetzner’s traffic page ^S36 says overage is billed in blocks of 100 MB, which is 0.0001 TB (dated). The only overage price retrieved is Singapore at $8.49 per TB ^S38. Included traffic depends on product and location. The table comes from the traffic page ^S36, last changed on 2024-05-21, which is more than 24 months before retrieval, so it is dated.

Akamai Cloud adds 1 TB a month of transfer to a global pool for Object Storage ^S33. OVHcloud includes outbound public traffic in instance prices everywhere except Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai, where each project gets 1 TB a month ^{S34 S46}. OVHcloud’s blog post of 2026-08-25 lists outbound traffic among the items that stay under the model starting 2026-10-01 ^S47.

Prices not retrieved

No figure is given for these items, and none is estimated.

Cloud egress fees and the EU Data Act

The Data Act ^S50 is Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 and applies from 12 September 2025 (Article 50). It speaks of switching charges, and switching charges include data egress charges (Article 2(36)). It defines data egress charges as data transfer fees for extracting data to a different provider or to on-premises infrastructure (Article 2(35)).

• Providers may not impose any switching charges ^S50 from 12 January 2027 (Article 29(1)).
• Reduced switching charges are allowed ^S50 from 11 January 2024 to 12 January 2027 (Article 29(2)). They are limited to costs directly linked to switching (Article 29(3)).
• Where a service is used in parallel with another provider’s service, data egress charges are allowed ^S50 “only for the purpose of passing on egress costs incurred” (Article 34(2)). The text sets no end date.
• Certain switching obligations, including the ban on switching charges, do not apply ^S50 to some custom-built services. The majority of main features must have been custom-built to accommodate the specific needs of an individual customer, or all components developed for one customer. The exemption holds only where the service is not offered at broad commercial scale via the provider’s service catalogue (Article 31(1)).

So the 2027-01-12 date applies to switching charges only. Charges for parallel (multi-cloud) use stay allowed at cost. Ordinary internet egress for production traffic is not a switching charge. The prices on this page and in the calculator do not change on that date.

AWS says eligible EU customers may request reduced data transfer rates for eligible use cases ^S03. Azure’s at-cost transfer for Europe applies to Internet egress routed over the transit ISP path, where the service supports that path ^S15.

Free egress when leaving AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud each credit egress for customers who leave. These are credits tied to ending the relationship, not discounts, so the calculator never applies them to a monthly figure. No primary announcement with a verified date was retrieved for the AWS and Azure programmes, so no announcement date is given for them. Google’s announcement post ^S18 carries the announcement date 2024-01-12.

Units and conversions

Each provider states prices in its own unit. This page keeps the stated unit in every price and converts only for comparison. TB results on this page use 1 TB = 1,000 GB.

If the AWS or Oracle GB is in fact 2^30 bytes, costs on their volume-priced tiers would change by the ratio 1.073741824 ^derived. The price files do not settle it.

What the comparison leaves out

The lowest-cost claims on this page compare the egress charge only. They leave out storage, compute, requests and CDN services. They also leave out transfer between regions or availability zones, interconnect and private links, and inbound transfer. VAT, support plans, commitment discounts, private pricing and the China and GovCloud regions are out too. DigitalOcean and Hetzner rows are the charge above the transfer a plan includes, and the plan has its own price.

Egress is one line of a hosting bill. For licence costs on the same hosts, see the Windows Server licensing calculator and the hypervisor licensing calculator.

Methodology summary

Every price comes from a provider’s own price file, API, page or documentation, retrieved on 2026-10-11 and traced to an entry in the source ledger. The dataset has 487 publishable rows, and the public CSV holds those rows only. Providers covered are AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Hetzner Cloud, DigitalOcean, Akamai Cloud and OVHcloud.

A monthly cost is the sum over tiers of the volume in each tier times the tier price, after free allowances, with the volume first converted into the provider’s unit ^derived. Costs are rounded half up to the cent once, on the final figure. Per-GB prices are rounded to 6 decimal places and per-TB prices to 2. Examples use AWS us-east-1, Azure East US and Google Cloud us-east4 so that the US regions compare. The EU view uses eu-central-1, West Europe and europe-west3.

Known limits:

• Prices are USD list prices. Enterprise discounts, private pricing and marketplace deals are not modelled.
• Google Cloud prices depend on the source region and, for Premium Tier, the destination. Only us-east4, us-central1 and europe-west3 are recorded. The pricing page still carries a notice about Premium Tier increases from February 2024 ^S16. This page uses the tables on the same page.
• AWS tier thresholds aggregate usage across services, and the calculator prices one stream ^S03.
• Azure’s Microsoft network tier starts differ between the pricing page and the API, as described above.
• Hetzner included traffic is a range by plan, and DigitalOcean included transfer depends on the Droplets in the team.
• Providers outside the ledger, such as Vultr, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, are not covered.

Prices and price APIs are refreshed monthly. Leaving programmes and documentation are refreshed quarterly. The Data Act text is fixed and is re-checked on 2027-01-12. A refreshed price that moves more than 15 percent against the approved value is held for review. Hub-wide rules are on the methodology page.

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