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They're going to limit you if you spin up a bunch of cheap instances to use up their bandwidth, but if you pay $300/mo for their 3 Gbps connection you can saturate that and they don't care.


I assume if you saturate that 3Gbps connection they will definitely care. Just maybe not be in a position to do anything about it.


I guess they'll care about as much as a restaurant cares if you've eaten the meal you paid for.


You can’t compare it like that as the calculation is different. If someone eats a small part of their meal or the whole portion doesn’t change the outcome for the restaurant. They can’t sell the rest to someone else, if someone doesn’t use bandwidth someone else is going to use it.




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