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Loading...The cost of moving network traffic across boundaries within or between cloud providers, including peering arrangements, transit gateways, and inter-region private links. Transit pricing is the dominant cost driver of multi-region and multi-cloud architectures. The federation requires transit cost to be reported by route class with cross-region, inter-AZ, and external peering separated under UFMS-001:2.4. Architecture reviews evaluate transit cost as part of the deployment topology decision and the migration plans for high-traffic data planes.
A telecommunications term applied to cloud networking; the rise of transit gateway products in the late 2010s codified the vocabulary.
Federation members publish transit cost by route class quarterly. High-volume routes are reviewed at the annual architecture review under MEV-Annex:3.2. Multi-cloud transit posture is a steward tier consideration in the annual federation accreditation.
@misc{ifo4_glossary_transit_pricing,
title = {{Transit Pricing}},
author = {{IFO4 Federation Editorial Board}},
howpublished = {{IFO4 Federation Glossary, slug \texttt{transit-pricing}}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://ifo4.org/glossary/transit-pricing},
note = {Category: FinOps; key: TransitPricing}
}Federation members and accredited practitioners may challenge any entry under TGS-002:1.7. Filed challenges are routed to the editorial board, triaged into the revision register, and resolved in writing on the public docket. The slug remains stable through any revision.