Tag: data-transfer

Data transfer is the most consistently underestimated cost in AWS architectures. It does not appear in compute estimates, it does not scale linearly, and it punishes microservices designs at exactly the moment growth feels like success.

AWS migration cost estimates are consistently wrong — not because the tools are bad, but because they miss the parallel run period, data transfer during migration, and the operational tax of learning a new environment. Here is what to actually model.