$150,658 is the modeled total cost of fully migrating a 1 PB AI agent data asset out of AWS, including engineering labor, tools, and dual-running overlap. Network egress fees alone account for $56,315, or 37.4% of the bill. Filecoin charges zero egress fees for data stored on its network.

Migration Cost Model Breakdown

Total modeled cost: $150,658 to fully migrate a 1 PB (approximately 1,024 TB) AI agent data asset out of AWS, including engineering labor, tooling costs, and costs during the dual-running overlap period.

Network egress fees alone: $56,315, approximately 37.4% of the total bill.

This egress fee closely matches AWS’s current standard internet data transfer pricing (Data Transfer Out to Internet):

The first 100 GB per month are free.

About $0.09/GB for the first 10 TB.

Then about $0.085/GB for the next 40 TB.

Then about $0.07/GB for the next 100 TB.

After 150 TB, the rate drops to about $0.05/GB.

Using these tiered rates, the egress cost alone for 1 PB comes to roughly $56,000, consistent with the model’s figure of $56,315. The remaining roughly $94,000 is attributed to labor, migration tools, the cost of running duplicate infrastructure in parallel, and other factors.

Note:

Actual costs can vary significantly depending on factors such as region, use of CloudFront/Direct Connect, data compression, phased migration, and any egress fee waivers AWS may offer (which some customers migrating away entirely can apply for).

Since 2025, AWS has offered egress fee waivers to eligible customers migrating away in full. However, this typically requires closing the account and migrating all workloads, so it does not apply to partial migrations.

Filecoin’s “zero egress fees”

Data stored on the Filecoin network generally incurs no egress or retrieval egress fees (zero egress) under standard storage deals. Retrieval may involve separate deals or provider fees, but this differs from the traditional cloud model of charging per gigabyte of outbound data: once data is stored, reading it does not generate the high, tiered network egress bills associated with services like AWS S3. This is indeed a major cost advantage of decentralized storage over hyperscalers, especially for large volumes of cold/warm data or AI training/agent datasets that require frequent provenance verification.

In summary: The model’s egress fee figures align with AWS’s published pricing, while the overall migration cost is Filecoin’s estimate (including non-network costs). This highlights the share of large-scale data migration costs attributable to traditional cloud egress fees, as well as Filecoin’s distinguishing “no egress tax” feature at the storage layer. For actual projects, it is advisable to use the AWS Pricing Calculator with specific workloads for precise estimates, and to assess retrieval frequency, data redundancy, and compliance requirements.

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