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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Show threadbiggestsonicfan
@jonty There are tools to "empty" all AWS services, but I had reoccurring monthly charges billed to me so I had to close my AWS account. I didn't realize at the time that permanently bans you from using AWS ever again.
Apr 30, 2024 at 4:05amWeb
Show threadLunaphiedApr 30, 2024
@biggestsonicfan @jonty what
Show threadbiggestsonicfanApr 30, 2024
@Lunaphied @jonty Behold https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-closing.html
Close an AWS account - AWS Account Management

Learn how to close an AWS account that you no longer need.

Show threadLunaphiedApr 30, 2024

@biggestsonicfan @jonty

If you want to use the same email address for a different AWS account, we recommend updating it before closure. See Update the AWS account name, email address, or password for the root user for instructions on updating your email address.

What a joke of a company. Same statement for hardware 2FA tokens. Banned forever so change it first. That one makes even less sense!

They don't seem to actually want to ban the person just their account identifiers???

Also lol they have caps on closing member accounts of organizations how does that make any sense

Show threadbiggestsonicfanApr 30, 2024
@Lunaphied @jonty I barely checked the emails AWS sent me because 90% of them were useless to me. What makes them think I am going to constantly monitor a non-primary email address?! A gmail specific workaround is putting periods in your username or putting "+aws" after. So it's literally the same email, but not according to their database...