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While the parent point about cloud providers having arrived at their policies thoughtfully, this particular issue is likely not part of the equation. There are plenty of services that run on a quota system (chat gpt, sentry, etc). There is a difference between shutting off a service the customer reasonably expected to be always on and shutting off a service when it reaches a threshold set by the customer as part of their purchase. The former is more like repossessing a physical good willy-nilly if the customer misses a payment or you find a check bounces…you can’t do that.

Surely it depends on the type of contract. Prepaid SIM cards stop working the second you run out of credit.

Cloud squatting?

Node eviction