Like you said, a good cautionary tale. Even this incident, although definitely rough, isn't that bad compared to what can happen if you scale a full infrastruct

Like you said, a good cautionary tale. Even this incident, although definitely rough, isn't that bad compared to what can happen if you scale a full infrastructure improperly, or just overlook something involving a software-based business. Just a couple of months ago, a test EC2 instance that had been forgotten about got spun up by a very archaic piece of code, and ended up costing the guys I'm working with quite a bit. Always RTFM (especially AWS pricing docs) carefully, or feel the burn.