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Coldline minimum storage duration charge
A team at Orchard Lane stored 5 TB of quarterly reports in a Coldline bucket and deleted them 20 days later after realizing they were duplicates. What billing effect should they expect?
- A.An early deletion charge, because Coldline has a 90-day minimum storage duration and they are billed as if the objects were stored for the remainder of it
- B.A retrieval charge for each object, because deleting an object counts as reading it
- C.No extra charge, because deletion in any class stops billing immediately
- D.A charge for 365 days of storage, because Coldline has a one-year minimum
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Correct answer: A. An early deletion charge, because Coldline has a 90-day minimum storage duration and they are billed as if the objects were stored for the remainder of it
Why: Coldline objects have a 90-day minimum storage duration, so deleting them earlier incurs a charge equal to storing them for the rest of that period. The one-year minimum applies to Archive, not Coldline. Deleting objects does not count as data retrieval.
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