Reaching for the Wallet to Take Out the Data: How Data Egress Fees Impact the Cloud Buyer

This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into the amount of cloud budget committed to data egress fees and how this differs by vendor. It also asks what the market needs to consider when issuing egress fees."Difficult to forecast data egress fees are likely to come under the spotlight as organizations look to do more with their data - especially with the introduction of generative AI. Vendors across the cloud market should carefully consider the impact of data egress fees on cloud deployments as increasingly their customer base - and regulators - will be asking their own questions around how detrimental fees can be to hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments," says Penny Madsen, senior research director, Cloud and Edge Services, IDC.