Agreed. If this is a service I'm already paying for and if it's basically just doing 'CRUD' actions that are (hopefully) low in resource usage I'd be really unc

Agreed. If this is a service I'm already paying for and if it's basically just doing 'CRUD' actions that are (hopefully) low in resource usage I'd be really uncomfortable with a pay-per-use model. Rate limiting sure, but I don't want another thing I need to price in my head as I'm writing code.