You can tell someone has worked in the cloud for too long when they start to think of $6 per database query as a reasonable price.

We really need to go back to on-premise. We have surrendered our autonomy to these megacorps and now are paying for it - quite literally in many cases.

Surely most queries should process much less than 1 TB of data?

My 3TB, 41 billion row table costs pennies to query day to day. The billing is based on the data processed by the query, not the table size. I pay more for storage.