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?

Medium
Show threadLuka Rubinjoni
@jonty Even bigger news: the backups ending up in the unfortunately named S3 bucket.
Apr 30, 2024 at 6:45amWeb
Show threadMomoApr 30, 2024
@rubinjoni
Whoever I just linked that story to, I add "and read the entire article! The headline is NOT the best part of it!"
@jonty