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by swiftcoder 1672 days ago
> Should _every_ S3 action have a `if will_incur_charges() and should_not_incur_charges(): raise Exception()` statement in it's critical path?

We're talking about one account-wide flag `has_exceeded_billing_limits`. Changes are infrequent, and can be pushed into caches. Small overruns while the flag pushes are trivially eaten by AWS.

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You claim that a bunch of GPU crypto minors won't exploit a chance to incur billing overruns if amazon waives charges?

The amazon deal is simple. Very clear pricing for pay what you use.

Cloudflare - can you link to the page where they show the cost of bandwidth? Still waiting.