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Egress

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈiːɡrɛs/nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, egress means: Data leaving a network, for example from a cloud provider to the internet or to another region. Cloud providers usually charge for egress but not for incoming data.

In Turkish: çıkış trafiği, veri çıkışı, egress

How it is used

Common in cost and network talk: 'egress fees', 'egress costs', 'egress traffic'. The opposite is ingress (incoming traffic). In Kubernetes, 'Ingress' is also the name of an object that routes incoming HTTP traffic.

Example sentences

  1. Egress was a third of our cloud bill because users downloaded videos straight from storage.

  2. Putting a CDN in front of the bucket reduced our egress costs a lot.

Common collocations

  • egress fees
  • egress traffic
  • data egress
  • ingress and egress
  • CDNContent Delivery Network: a network of servers around the world that stores copies of a site's files and delivers them from the location closest to each user.
  • cost optimizationReducing cloud spending without hurting performance or reliability, for example by removing unused resources, choosing the right sizes and using discounts.
  • object storageA type of cloud storage that keeps files as objects, each with a unique key and metadata, and lets you read and write them over an HTTP API.
  • regionA geographic area where a cloud provider has a group of data centers, such as Frankfurt or Ireland. You choose the region where your resources run.

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