Cloud Egress Cost Mitigator

Stack caching and payload compression scenarios against your monthly transfer totals before committing to premium tiers. Enter outbound GB and the provider rate to surface base spend, GB avoided through caching and compression, and the monthly dollars saved when optimizations stick.

Total outbound transfer subject to egress fees.
Per-GB charge after free tiers.
Percentage of traffic offloaded by CDN or edge caching. Defaults to 25%.
Payload reduction from compression. Defaults to 0%.

Validate all assumptions against your cloud provider’s billing console before forecasting budgets.

Examples

  • 12,000 GB egress, $0.09/GB rate, 35% cache, 12% compression ⇒ Current monthly egress cost: $1,080.00 • Optimized cost after mitigation: $617.76 • Savings unlocked: $462.24 • GB avoided: 5,136.00 (42.80%) • Effective egress rate after mitigation: $0.05 per original GB
  • 30,000 GB egress, $0.065/GB rate, default cache, no compression ⇒ Current monthly egress cost: $1,950.00 • Optimized cost after mitigation: $1,462.50 • Savings unlocked: $487.50 • GB avoided: 7,500.00 (25.00%) • Effective egress rate after mitigation: $0.05 per original GB

FAQ

Can I model tiered egress pricing?

Run the calculator for each pricing tier separately and sum the savings, or plug in the blended effective rate for a quick estimate.

How should I reflect private interconnect discounts?

Lower the per-GB rate to your discounted number; the percentage savings from caching and compression remain the same.

Does this include transfer acceleration fees?

No. Add acceleration surcharges to the base rate before running the numbers if they scale with GB transferred.

Additional Information

  • Cache reduction applies before compression so you can evaluate layered mitigations realistically.
  • Update the cache percentage to reflect measured CDN offload or object-store replication policies.
  • Compression savings work for text-based payloads; skip the field for already compressed media.

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