{"id":2155,"date":"2025-03-30T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2025-03-30T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:46:06","slug":"free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common complaint about using AWS is the egress fees, which can be <a href=\"https:\/\/world.hey.com\/dhh\/it-s-five-grand-a-day-to-miss-our-s3-exit-b8293563\">quite significant<\/a> if a company wants to transfer lots of data out of the cloud. I happen to chance upon <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws\/\">this announcement<\/a> which I missed last year, that talks about a way for customers to perform data transfer out (DTO) for free.<\/p>\n<p>The caveat is that this offer is only for customers who are migrating away from AWS, and you will need to contact support to make a request &#8211; although it says AWS doesn&#8217;t require customers to close their accounts. Also, it appears that the &#8220;free exit&#8221; window is time-limited. Meaning once you get an approval, you should quickly migrate your data before the free DTO window is over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe this choice must include the one to migrate your data to another cloud provider or on-premises. That\u2019s why, starting today, we\u2019re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges when you want to move outside of AWS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws\/\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common complaint about using AWS is the egress fees, which can be quite significant if a company wants to transfer lots of data out of the cloud. I happen to chance upon this announcement which I missed last year, that talks about a way for customers to perform data transfer out (DTO) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}