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A soft capped network capacity is different from a hard spending cap. They have different risk models, benefits and drawbacks.

Personally I prefer a cap on spending given that the risk of runaway costs has a bigger impact than the risk of runaway of legit network traffic. I suspect most people feel that they are more cable of catching and addressing runaway success, rather than an runaway network problem caused by an undiscovered bug or attack (often intentionally done during off-hours in the middle of the night).




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