@stefano that's almost my case with oracle. More than one year using the "free" with pay-as-you-go plan (so they don't delete it without warning) and suddenly I start to get crazy charges, even with all services stopped. As usual, nobody there could answer property so I delete everything and ditched them permanently. As people say here 'cheap costs'

@stefano
Anyone want to use clouds should (carefully and carefully) aware of what functionality costs how much, in which basis throuout possibly wanted functionalities. Otherwise, would be quite surprised with the bill, like in the thread.
IMHO, cloud is good for usually almost unused but qute huge spike arises only a short period of time per month or fewer, which on-premise server cannot handle or too costly.
Something alike would be monthly batch on mainframes that need to purchase additional (usually implemented but disabled) CPU cores at the times only.

@stefano ouch, but it’s more “I don’t understand” in combinations with “pay as you go” (which is often the way used within clouds but limited to).

Hey, I can remember when I created a 4,000 USD (ok 3,872.63$ bill) just by enabling debug logs on a Friday afternoon (and forgetting to disable it) with a huge growing amount of logs :)