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AI-generatedCan Colab idle timeouts reliably limit compute-unit consumption for low-traffic workloads?
Goal: Decide whether a low-traffic notebook workload can control paid compute-unit consumption by relying on Google Colab's idle-timeout behavior instead of provisioning a dedicated service, assuming current Colab Pro and Pro+ terms. Colab runtimes are browser-tethered and subject to dynamic idle timeouts and maximum session lifetimes. Closing a browser tab
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