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A file service sends 500 TB a month to users. If data transfer out costs $0.05 per GB, what is the monthly egress bill?

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Answer

About 25,000 dollars per month. In review, anything from 16,700 to 37,500 counts as right.

The worked estimate

500 TB = 500,000 GB. × $0.05 = $25,000 a month. Storing those bytes is often much cheaper than sending them, which is why a CDN's lower bandwidth price and caching matter for file and video services. (Prices vary by provider and volume.)

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