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elieobeid7: still charged $9 for R2 Infrequent Access after deleting every bucket.
Community user elieobeid7 says R2 Infrequent Access charges of $9 continue although all R2 buckets were deleted the previous month and data moved to S3, asks where the billed bucket is, questions charges on January 9 and January 23, and demands a refund. Ticket 01941409 had no reply.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unknown
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-01-26
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author demands a refund; ticket 01941409 has no reply in the thread.
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Author demands a refund of $9 R2 IA charges
Open original sourceThe author says $9 is still charged after deleting all buckets, questions two charge dates, and demands a refund.
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