They started Bandwidth Alliance [0] [1] to reduce, or even eliminate, bandwidth charges. So I think they're sticking to that commitment.
I can't speak to the overall health of the alliance, though. I remember reaching out to one of their listed partners (I forget which) in the Alliance a couple of years ago about the egress fee for bandwidth originating from Cloudflare, and the response I got was "we can talk about that when your fees get huge". That wasn't the response I was expecting from a partner.
I just clicked on one of the listed partners [2[ and the page still says "all bandwidth between Vultr and Cloudflare will be free of charge in the upcoming months." The Wayback Machine tells me that that statement hasn't been updated ever since it was created.
So without a clear number or scale, customers are still at the mercy of a call to the partner's Sales dept.
I can't speak to the overall health of the alliance, though. I remember reaching out to one of their listed partners (I forget which) in the Alliance a couple of years ago about the egress fee for bandwidth originating from Cloudflare, and the response I got was "we can talk about that when your fees get huge". That wasn't the response I was expecting from a partner.
I just clicked on one of the listed partners [2[ and the page still says "all bandwidth between Vultr and Cloudflare will be free of charge in the upcoming months." The Wayback Machine tells me that that statement hasn't been updated ever since it was created.
So without a clear number or scale, customers are still at the mercy of a call to the partner's Sales dept.
[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
[2]: https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/technology-partners/vult...