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hamzamedbouh2: $9.90 for an empty R2 Infrequent Access test bucket with five operations.
Community user hamzamedbouh2, on the Free plan, says an R2 bucket accidentally created with Infrequent Access on July 17, 2026 stayed empty (0 bytes) with only five test operations, yet accrued a $9.90 usage charge after the bucket was deleted. Because billing ticket creation is disabled for the account, the author asks staff or moderators to escalate and waive the charge.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unknown
- Incident date
- 2026-07-17
- First reported
- 2026-07-27
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author asks for the $9.90 to be waived; no outcome is reported.
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Author asks to waive $9.90 for an empty IA bucket
Open original sourceThe author says an empty test bucket with five operations accrued $9.90 and asks for a waiver.
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