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by bee_rider 280 days ago
Cloud providers charge for holding data, for ingress/egress, and for compute (among other things). If I hit my budget by using too much compute, then keeping my data will cause the budget to be exceeded.

The difference is that cloud providers charge you for the “at rest” configuration, doing nothing isn’t free.
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pythonaut_16 280 days ago
Great so they can give you an option to kill all charges except basic storage. Or let you reserve part of your budget for storage. Or let you choose to have everything hard deleted.

Surely these billion and trillion dollar companies can figure out something so basic.

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2muchcoffeeman 280 days ago
How many small charges get written off though? If you make a $20 mistake, maybe you let it go and just pay.

Is that worth the support to refund the 10k and 100k charges? Maybe it is.

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