# Outbound data transfer for Postgres

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/outbound-data-transfer-for-postgres/1116>\
**Category:** Phoenix\
**Created:** [April 11, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/outbound-data-transfer-for-postgres/1116 "2021-04-11T20:34:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/outbound-data-transfer-for-postgres/1116/2 "2021-04-11T20:52:12Z")

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This is a little confusing. “Outbound data transfer” is just transmit data from your VM interfaces. So it does include replication and data between your application and database.

We need to do some networking work to account for “internal” vs “external” data, hopefully we get this cleaned up in the next couple of months.

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