The greed is distributed across the cloud provider's C-suite for sure. To be fair to them they refunded the bill afterwards according to the article but IMO we should not be accepting this kind of pricing models as normal.
A million items isn't a big deal, distributed or not. If anything, if your distributed architecture makes reading a million items more costly than a single machine doing it then it's time to go back to the drawing board.
A million items isn't a big deal, distributed or not. If anything, if your distributed architecture makes reading a million items more costly than a single machine doing it then it's time to go back to the drawing board.