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by zeroq 45 days ago
It's not about concrete examples.

Seasoned, well trained engineers have created hundreds of thousands in billing on AWS through a simple mistakes overnight.

It's immediately reminds me of putting microtransactions into children games on mobile devices - a venue that has been thoroughly explored some 10-15 years ago.

I can't see payment and provisioning as a blocker in any scenario.

This has a potential to create a massive yet very dubious income stream for the company.