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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I’ve had Google charge me $0.01 before for firebase usage.

    They really should have waited until I owed more since that cost them money.

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      12 hours ago

      On my personal AWS account, Im paying them 0.17 cents a month.

      I wonder if they pay a fee since it’s hooked into my credit card.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      They should almost just make it so the blaze plan of firebase or other cloud services has a $1 non refundable pre-payment so they can just whittle away at the pennies instead of getting charged processing/transaction fees on a $0.01 transaction. Tops up to $1 if it goes to $0

      I think people would pay $1 to enable the paid plans. If you’re going that far, you’re getting $1 of use out of it.

    • rainman@lemmy.myserv.one
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      14 hours ago

      Once a month I’d have to pay a few pennies to Google for our cloud use at a school district I worked for. It always baffled me!