Article 7736C An AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion

An AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion

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Ellsworth Toohey
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On the morning of July 17, a redditor who normally pays Amazon Web Services about five cents a month opened their inbox to a wall of billing alerts and a running tab of $2.5 billion. Their whole setup was a single S3 storage bucket, untouched since 2023 and not even public. - Read the rest

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