How to reduce data transfer in my website which is hosted in AWS using ec2instance & nginx.
I tried the free tier but received a bill charged for data transfer that exceeded their limit. would like a way other than VPC.
Data Transfer is charged for traffic going from AWS to the Internet.
Therefore, if people on the Internet are accessing your website (or retrieving files from your S3 bucket), it will generate a charge for Data Transfer.
To reduce Data Transfer costs, you will need to reduce the amount of data transferred to the Internet. For example, you could use a free Cloudflare account to cache content. This way, whenever somebody goes to your website they would hit CloudFlare instead and it can serve the traffic instead of AWS. This is great for static content but won't help with dynamic content.