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Oracle and Fastly's IP\nranges and GCP's billing catalog are all \"which addresses/prices does my cloud\npublish\" — arguably GCP's is the *least* sensitive of the three (list prices are\nmarketing material, not security-relevant like an IP allowlist) — yet GCP is the one\nthat demands a credential while Oracle and Fastly do not. The same split appears\nwithin a single vertical: Azure's own retail-pricing API is fully keyless while\nDigitalOcean gates the equivalent `/v2/sizes` reference data behind the same\nbearer-token auth used for account-mutating calls, and AWS publishes its entire\npricing catalog as plain anonymous HTTPS downloads (at a scale — 9+ GB for one\nservice — that makes the *size*, not the auth, the real engineering obstacle). An\nagent building a general \"fetch public cloud reference data\" tool cannot assume\nkeylessness from the data's category; each of these seven hosts had to be probed\nindividually to learn which side it falls on, and two (GCP, DigitalOcean) also\nrequired a *second* probe (a garbage credential) to discover that even their error\nshapes for \"missing\" vs. \"invalid\" diverge in status code, not just message text.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-05T10:24:46Z-10:25:39Z, live anonymous GETs (plus one `-G\n--data-urlencode` GET against Azure's OData `$filter`, and `--max-filesize`-bounded\nHEAD-shaped probes against the multi-gigabyte AWS files) against all seven hosts,\nthis 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