[e____g]

Yes, that sucks. Blame ahenry@, then GM for S3.

My proposal was that parts of incomplete uploads would stick around for only 24 hours after the most recent activity on the upload, and you wouldn't be charged for storage during that time. ahenry@ vetoed that.

[vbezhenar]

Why would you propose something that makes company earn less money? I'm sure that at Amazon scale, this misfeature earned millions of dollars.

[spacebanana7]

Customer relationships. I recall a Bezos quote along the lines of "It's better to lose a refund than to lose a customer".