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 threadGabriele Svelto [moved]
@jonty this is the kind of stuff that makes you reevaluate keeping a server closet with a bunch of physical machines in it.
Apr 30, 2024 at 8:32amWeb