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Comment on: €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
As a manager I avoid Google Cloud for this kind of customer-service disasters; but as someone who has dealt with large-scale billing systems in the telecom world, probably similar to that of Google Cloud, I am not surprised that it takes 10 minutes to consolidate all the usage logs of a customer for billing.For telephony, it sometimes takes days when roaming is involved.You have to imagine TB/sec of data, if not more, coming from thousand of potential sources, and queuing for aggregation to the proper company account, all having to be auditable. This is not a small engineering feat and it can'