You indicated that one of the main reasons for choosing Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the wide range of services offered, allowing you to innovate, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. AWS has expanded its services to support almost any cloud workload, with over 200 fully featured services including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and more. For example, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers over 750 instances and a variety of databases to choose from.
We believe that this choice should also include the ability to migrate your data to another cloud provider or on-premises. Starting today, we are waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges for customers looking to move away from AWS.
Over 90% of our customers already do not incur data transfer expenses out of AWS, as we provide 100 gigabytes per month free from AWS Regions to the internet. We also offer one terabyte of free data transfer out of Amazon CloudFront every month.
If you require more than 100 gigabytes of data transfer out per month during the transition, you can contact AWS Support for free DTO rates. Requests will be reviewed at the AWS account level, and credits will be provided for the data being migrated.
We believe in customer choice and support the freedom to move data out of AWS. The waiver on data transfer out charges is available to all AWS customers globally and aligns with the European Data Act.
For more information, you can check the FAQ or contact AWS Customer Support to request credits for DTO during the migration process. We hope you choose to stay with AWS.
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