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mwd: $9.90 of R2 Infrequent Access operations on a bucket that never held an object.
Community user mwd says a backup bucket set to Infrequent Access never held an object, yet was billed $9.00 for three IA Class A operations and $0.90 for two IA Class B operations, $9.90 in total, while the live production workload cost nothing. The author reads this as the lack of an IA allowance plus million-unit rounding, asks whether that is intended and documented, and also questions a $1.00 Girls Who Code donation line. The author says he is not chasing the money but has no ticket access on the Free plan. A community MVP replies that the rounding is intended and shown when creating the bucket.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unknown
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-08-30
- Billing outcome
- Not recorded
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author asks how such a charge can be reviewed without ticket access; no billing request or outcome is reported.
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Case timeline
Author reports $9.90 on an empty IA bucket
Open original sourceThe author says five configuration operations on an empty IA bucket cost $9.90 and asks whether the rounding is intended and documented.
Author details the charges
Open original sourceThe author lists 3 IA Class A operations at $9.00 and 2 IA Class B operations at $0.90, plus a $1.00 donation line he did not knowingly opt into.
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