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[atian]

You can ask for a good faith billing adjustment. GCE or AWS is well aware that things happen, and collecting something is better than collecting nothing.

[ceejayoz → atian]

Part two of the article indicates they did that, and had the bill nulled out.

[pettycashstash2 → ceejayoz]

from part 2:

"After going through our lengthy doc on this incident sharing our side of the story, various consults, talks, and internal discussions Google let go of our bill as a one time gesture!"