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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?

  1. 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
  2. B.A retrieval charge for each object, because deleting an object counts as reading it
  3. C.No extra charge, because deletion in any class stops billing immediately
  4. 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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