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[–] rimu@piefed.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow, the big providers are $$$$

[–] falsem@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The more surprising part is that there are companies I've never heard of that cost even more.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those are app platforms, so I guess they price it that way to discourage certain bandwith intensive usage.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think it's exactly that. They are targeted at bootstrapping projects and prototyping and are, frankly, very good at that job.