Bandwidth

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Definition

How much data can travel through an internet connection at once. Like the width of a highway - more lanes mean more cars.

Real-World Example

Higher bandwidth allows you to stream 4K videos without buffering.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

Bandwidth is a networking concept (data transfer capacity per second), not a single cloud service. All major cloud providers expose bandwidth limits and throughput characteristics on services like virtual machines, load balancers, VPN/Direct Connect-style links, and internet egress.

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