I’m surprised that you expect to not pay for the service you use.
I checked into a hotel yesterday, and will check out this morning. I don’t consider it bad customer service that they want to get paid for that room.
I checked into a hotel yesterday, and will check out this morning. I don’t consider it bad customer service that they want to get paid for that room.
What if you forgot to check out, and the hotel kept charging you for the room until you got a bill at the end of the month? (ie you got a bill for 20 nights).
I know that’s not how hotels work, but it’s how these cloud services work.
But the hotel is the same thing, right? If you don't check out, and they keep the room empty because they think you're using it, you're still monopolizing the resource.
How can they make the difference between someone who will be back but just happened to spend a few nights away (say using the hotel as a base for trips) and someone who won't be back but forgot to check out?
But I guess, in the case of hotels, you can usually tell them "I'll be here for X days" upfront. Then again, if you change your mind, they won't always reimburse you the cost you've paid.
Sure but how easy is it to accidentally book an open-ended hotel room stay?
I'd imagine "not very" because there'd certainly be a huge deposit required and/or proof of finances, etc.
i assume AWS learned to target businesses with this shady strategy, which do waste huge amounts of money this way, instead of burning bridges with hobbyist developers over pennies that later will avoid using AWS at the workplace if given the choice.