The Egress Bill: Why Your Multi-Region FinOps Plan Misses $40k/Month

The Egress Bill: Why Your Multi-Region FinOps Plan Misses $40k/Month Multi-region is the architecture default for serious SaaS in 2026. The justification is real: disaster recovery, latency, sovereignty. The cost is hidden in the bill under "data transfer" and "regional traffic" and gets zero attention because no engineer "owns" data transfer the way they own compute or storage. A multi-region SaaS spending $200,000 per month on AWS pays $30,000-$50,000 of that bill on data transfer alone. Most