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Upload credentials are Source-issued but in AWS format and valid only at the proxy; path is s3://<account-id>/<product-id>/ and you cannot write outside your own prefix. Accepts aws cli, boto3, rclone with a custom endpoint, plus a Source CLI and service accounts for CI.","chaining":"Multiplier is data products per account/org, and orgs can hold team members. Because reads are anonymous and S3-native, this is the cleanest 'someone else's S3 on a real CDN' shape in the whole D area — it can be mounted by AList/rclone and fronted by Cloudflare exactly per §2.1.","limits":[],"limits_note":"Flat pricing 'will be announced soon' — i.e. free today, unpriced tomorrow, which is a real durability risk for capacity planning. Data products are public by default and there is no private mode.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email","country":null},"reliability_note":"Beta + announced-but-unpublished pricing means the free window has an unknown end date. 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