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Did they at least comp the costs? When I have been in remotely similar situations with Amazon they have said "just do a hundred million API calls and we'll drop the fees, we are sorry this is so hard".

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No, they haven't comped anything. It's actually costing us hundreds of $/day because the transfer job is supposed to transfer the items to Nearline, so every day that passes without it working is costing us a lot.

If it helps, I'll dig into this when I get into work. This is the first I've heard of this case.

-Andrew, GCS

Ok, I dug into this a bit. You got stuck in a trap in our current setup. We've improved the docs slightly to make this less common, we're going to fix up the error messages to be more clear, and we have a longer-term plan to make this much more push-button.

Lastly, I'm going to go chase people down about getting you a comp for this.

Apologies for the trouble. -Andrew

Thanks a lot! I appreciate it!

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