> what does being member of the "bandwidth alliance" mean?
Cloud providers normally have huge profits on egress data ( outgoing) and not incoming data ( to attract giving them your data).
This additionally incentives customers to stay within a certain cloud and not using competing products based on costs ( since egress costs to a 3rd party makes the price difference obsolete)
Cloudflare ( i think) started the bandwidth alliance to make these prices more fair. As in: work together, have direct network connections and reduce customer billing.
Cloud providers normally have huge profits on egress data ( outgoing) and not incoming data ( to attract giving them your data).
This additionally incentives customers to stay within a certain cloud and not using competing products based on costs ( since egress costs to a 3rd party makes the price difference obsolete)
Cloudflare ( i think) started the bandwidth alliance to make these prices more fair. As in: work together, have direct network connections and reduce customer billing.
AWS didn't want to join as they are n°1 currently: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/