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Inter-datacenter bandwidth

Posted on August 4, 2014

Is bandwidth charged for communications between instances in the same datacenter?



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We’re currently not charging for bandwidth, however, when we do, all traffic that goes through the public interface will be counted against your bandwidth usage. So you will need to use the private network for free inter-datacenter traffic.

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