· Palaniappan P
· 5 min read
Cloud Exit and Reversibility on AWS (2026): Egress, Portability, and the Contract Clauses Procurement Actually Asks For
The EU Data Act drops cloud switching and egress charges to zero by January 12, 2027—and AWS already waives data-transfer-out for customers leaving. So why is exit still expensive? Because the real cost is re-platform time (~$113k in our model), not the ~$4,400 egress line. Here is how to make an AWS workload defensibly reversible.
