there really isn’t a conspiracy. a hard billing cap is at least one of: very difficult (even for faang) to implement without incurring unacceptable performance

there really isn’t a conspiracy. a hard billing cap is at least one of: very difficult (even for faang) to implement without incurring unacceptable performance regressions, impractical as downtime has worse optics than high spend (given that high spend in this case is correlated with traffic, which is good), unnecessary by those customers who represent most revenue.