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I've always been amazed at how hackers can exfiltrate so much data with no one even batting an eye. Doing the math, the pure data cost to Parler was $7,700 ((

I've always been amazed at how hackers can exfiltrate so much data with no one even batting an eye. Doing the math, the pure data cost to Parler was $7,700 (($0.15/GB10) + ($0.11/GB 40) + ($0.09/GB20)) 1000 => $7,700 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-reduced/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-re... Even the Chase Bank hack had an astronomical amount of data that didn't appear to set off any alarms.

mxcrossb 6y ago
Of course, being unaware of how much you’re being charged is par for the course with AWS!
- josh_frome 6y ago
  Best they can do is eventual consistency for billing, apparently.
wilde 6y ago
To be fair, there’s a story on here every week about how cloud provider alarms are happy to ping you 24h after the spend.
nrmitchi 6y ago
According to reports, their monthly AWS spend (prior to today, obviously) was ~300k (or 3.6M/year). 7.7k is not really a noticeable increase, and any alarms that did trigger would likely have been attributed to increased user growth and platform load. That is if someone was even seeing a billing alarm alerting with every other issue that was going on.
- curiousllama 6y ago
  I've seen more than one company that had a cloud spend policy that boiled down to: "if you spend a lot, the finance guy is gonna send you a snarky email a week later" Totally not surprised they didn't catch a 7.7k spike in real time
runlevel1 6y ago
At a certain scale it can be difficult to distinguish between data exfiltration and normal spikes in legitimate traffic.
hehehaha 6y ago
This so much. Are they not using dashboards? This amount of traffic should have triggered multiple alarms. Makes me think their devs just stopped caring.
- MrMan 6y ago
  maybe the devs are doing free speech activites and not watching the dashboard. I know I am being distracted from work by the activity here

mxcrossb 6y ago

Of course, being unaware of how much you’re being charged is par for the course with AWS!

josh_frome 6y ago
Best they can do is eventual consistency for billing, apparently.

wilde 6y ago

To be fair, there’s a story on here every week about how cloud provider alarms are happy to ping you 24h after the spend.

nrmitchi 6y ago

According to reports, their monthly AWS spend (prior to today, obviously) was ~300k (or 3.6M/year). 7.7k is not really a noticeable increase, and any alarms that did trigger would likely have been attributed to increased user growth and platform load. That is if someone was even seeing a billing alarm alerting with every other issue that was going on.

curiousllama 6y ago
I've seen more than one company that had a cloud spend policy that boiled down to: "if you spend a lot, the finance guy is gonna send you a snarky email a week later" Totally not surprised they didn't catch a 7.7k spike in real time

runlevel1 6y ago

At a certain scale it can be difficult to distinguish between data exfiltration and normal spikes in legitimate traffic.

hehehaha 6y ago

This so much. Are they not using dashboards? This amount of traffic should have triggered multiple alarms. Makes me think their devs just stopped caring.

MrMan 6y ago
maybe the devs are doing free speech activites and not watching the dashboard. I know I am being distracted from work by the activity here