The fraudsters and miners, however, are a whole other thing. They will suck up the maximum amount of resources they can and extract a tiny profit from it. It will inevitably cost you, the cloud provider, money, because mining typically isn't profitable without GPU compute anyway, so the entire profitiably of what they're doing is based on the fact that you are offering free electricity. It's a net loss, as these users will also probably never convert proportional to the usage they incur. Most users of free tier services use a tiny fraction of the available free resources within the tier. These guys will hover at 99.99% always, ruining the whole profitability model and dramatically increasing the cost of acquriing a customer via free tier.