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Your data transfer line is now the third largest on the bill. Where is it coming from and what do you do?

Data transfer is charged in several unrelated ways and reported as one line, so the first job is decomposition. Most surprises are cross-zone chatter between services that never needed to be on different nodes.

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Data transfer is charged in several unrelated ways and reported as one line, so the first job is decomposition. Most surprises are cross-zone chatter between services that never needed to be on different nodes.

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