Egress Cost Monitoring

Stop Bleeding Money
on Data Transfer Costs

Egress fees are the most opaque cloud costs. Track every byte leaving your cloud and identify expensive transfer patterns.

$0.08-$0.12
Per GB Egress Cost
Hidden
Until Month-End Bill

The $47,000 Surprise Bill

"We moved our API to Azure but kept our database in AWS for 'one more month' during migration. That month turned into three months."

"Every API request crossed the internet - AWS RDS in us-east-1 to Azure App Service in East US. 8TB of cross-cloud traffic per month. We didn't notice until the bill came."

"Three months of egress fees: $47,000. We thought we were saving money by 'finishing the migration later.'"

— CTO, Enterprise SaaS Platform

Egress costs are charged at $0.08-$0.12 per GB. At scale, this adds up fast.

10TB/month = $800-$1,200. 100TB/month = $8,000-$12,000. Most companies don't track egress until it's too late.

How Egress Monitoring Works

Real-time tracking of every byte leaving your cloud

1

Track All Egress Flows

We monitor data transfers from your cloud infrastructure:

  • Cross-Region Transfer - Data between regions ($0.02/GB)
  • Internet Egress - Data to internet ($0.08-$0.12/GB)
  • Cross-Cloud Transfer - AWS ↔ Azure ↔ GCP (expensive!)
  • CDN/Media Delivery - Video, images, downloads
# Daily egress report
Date: 2025-01-06
Internet Egress: 2.4 TB
Cost: $288 (@ $0.12/GB)
Cross-Region: 850 GB
Cost: $17 (@ $0.02/GB)
Daily Total: $305
Monthly Projection: $9,150
2

Identify Expensive Patterns

High-Cost Pattern Detected

Source: App Service (Azure East US)
Destination: S3 Bucket (AWS us-west-2)
Volume: 4.2 TB/month
Cost: $504/month in egress
Recommendation: Move S3 bucket to Azure Blob Storage in same region. Save $480/month.

Bandwidth Spike Detected

Service: CDN (CloudFront)
Asset: product-video-v2.mp4
Spike: 12 TB in 3 days (+800%)
Cost: $1,440 unexpected
Action: Video went viral on social media. Consider moving to lower-cost CDN or enabling compression.
3

Get Actionable Recommendations

Colocation Optimization

Move services that talk frequently to the same region or availability zone. Reduce cross-region transfer costs by 80-95%.

Enable Compression

APIs and web assets often transfer uncompressed. Enable gzip/brotli compression to reduce bandwidth by 60-80%.

CDN Optimization

Static assets served from origin are 5-10x more expensive than CDN cached. Increase cache hit ratio and TTL.

Eliminate Unnecessary Transfers

Log shipping, debug payloads, and test data transfers often forgotten. Identify and eliminate waste.

Where Egress Costs Hide

Cross-Cloud Architectures

App in one cloud, database in another. Every request crosses the internet. 1TB/day = $3,600/month in egress alone.

Fix: Migrate database to same cloud. Save 90%+ on egress.
$2K-$10K
per month waste

Wrong Region for Users

App hosted in us-east-1, most users in Europe or Asia. Every page load crosses continents. High latency AND high egress costs.

Fix: Multi-region deployment or CDN. Reduce egress 40-70%.
$1K-$5K
per month waste

Unoptimized Media Delivery

Serving videos/images directly from storage without CDN or compression. 4K videos at full resolution even for mobile users.

Fix: CDN + adaptive bitrate + WebP images. Save 60-80%.
$500-$5K
per month waste

Log Shipping to External Tools

Streaming logs to Datadog, Splunk, or other SaaS tools. 100GB/day of logs = $360/month in egress + tool ingestion fees.

Fix: Filter logs before shipping. Keep debug logs in-cloud.
$300-$2K
per month waste

Real Customer Savings

Companies that caught egress waste before it got out of control

$38K/year
Media Streaming Platform
Issue: Videos served from origin, not CDN
Fix: Enabled CloudFront with 95% cache hit ratio
Reduced egress by 82%
$92K/year
Global E-commerce
Issue: Database in AWS, app in Azure
Fix: Migrated database to Azure in same region
Eliminated $7.7K/mo cross-cloud egress
$21K/year
SaaS Analytics Tool
Issue: Uncompressed API responses (JSON)
Fix: Enabled gzip compression
Reduced bandwidth by 73%

Track Egress Across All Clouds

Unified egress monitoring regardless of where your infrastructure lives

Azure

  • • Bandwidth egress tracking
  • • Cross-region transfers
  • • CDN usage monitoring
  • • ExpressRoute optimization

AWS

  • • Data transfer monitoring
  • • CloudFront analytics
  • • Inter-region tracking
  • • VPC peering costs

Google Cloud

  • • Network egress tracking
  • • Cloud CDN monitoring
  • • Cross-zone transfers
  • • Interconnect usage

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