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Why cloud platform evolution feels like passive billing drift

AWS keeps adding new features to services we use and our monthly bill creeps up because some new default setting got enabled and I never know if I am paying for improvements or vendor feature creep.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The boundary between beneficial updates and revenue-driven feature expansion becomes indistinguishable to end users.

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