Keeping your data hostage. The more you have with them, the more you will have to pay in order to go to the competition. And wherever is your data, there must be your highly-paid services that utilize it.
Outbound bandwidth fees are essentially a form of "exit tax" that makes it more costly to use resources outside the cloud (like other clouds). It's there to lock you into your current cloud's ecosystem even if the grass is greener elsewhere.
Moving data around is already a lot harder than moving other resources (like compute). The bandwidth fees also add a monetary cost to such moves.
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Keeping your data hostage. The more you have with them, the more you will have to pay in order to go to the competition. And wherever is your data, there must be your highly-paid services that utilize it.
This is probably the right answer.
Outbound bandwidth fees are essentially a form of "exit tax" that makes it more costly to use resources outside the cloud (like other clouds). It's there to lock you into your current cloud's ecosystem even if the grass is greener elsewhere.
Moving data around is already a lot harder than moving other resources (like compute). The bandwidth fees also add a monetary cost to such moves.