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New Regions with Zero Additional Egress Costs — Snowflake Blog (2026)

Snowflake blog post announcing the Egress Cost Optimizer (ECO), which enables organizations to expand to new regions and share data cross-cloud with up to 96% savings compared to standard egress pricing. ECO rate: $16.896/TB-month.

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New Regions with Zero Additional Egress Costs — Snowflake Blog (2026)

Snowflake blog post announcing and describing the Egress Cost Optimizer (ECO), a managed cross-region / cross-cloud data sharing service.

Key facts surfaced (2026-05-06, via search):

ECO pricing: $16.896 per TB-month for automated fulfillment across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Claimed savings: Up to 96% vs. standard cross-cloud egress pricing.
Coverage: Any Snowflake region on any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Standard same-region transfers remain free; ECO applies to cross-region/cross-cloud replication.

Relationship to existing KG nodes:

Supplements source.docs-snowflake-com.en-user-guide-cost-understanding-data-transfer-2026 and source.docs-snowflake-com.en-user-guide-cost-exploring-data-transfer-2026.
Relevant to tradeoff.data-egress body (Snowflake egress is cost-based, not policy-based like AEP).
vendor.snowflake body can reference ECO as a cost-mitigation option for multi-region deployments.