Jonty WareingApr 29, 2024

User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?

AWS: yes of course

User: but

AWS: working as intended

User: but

AWS: thank you for your money

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?

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@jonty

You should not be charged for inbound traffic that you DROP.

Apr 29, 2024 at 10:20pmWeb
Show threadAlexander The 1stMay 1, 2024

@SpaceLifeForm @jonty I'm half expecting a charge from AWS when you're behind on payments and AWS drops the API call itself with "S3 Bucket requests exceeded existing budget." messages.

That's basically the banking overdraft method, after all.