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I just learned that I need to pay aws 400$ for last month. I was thinking it would be 50$.

by kovek 5y ago

hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
It's a very special kind of evil. They can always argue it's your fault, because you haven't read something, you misunderstood something. There are even stories circulating of people who lost their life savings by mistake but the AWS team charitably decided they will forgive them just this time, how nice of them! Everybody knows it's complex to their advantage, they are not stupid - but they can always defend themselves using the flexibility card. I don't believe a class action would ever happen.
- avidphantasm 5y ago
  Yes, the “let’s hook up your credit card to the Internet” part of cloud computing still makes me nervous.
  - imwillofficial 5y ago
    Use a prepaid credit card. Boom. Protected
    - stavros 5y ago
      privacy.com is great for this.
      - bradknowles 5y ago
        Except they are in the process of changing their bank that they work with, so that they can change the type of cards they issue, and you have until the end of December to change over all your old cards from the old format to the new one, which means changing the card numbers, too. This is a royal pain in the ass for those of us with hundreds of cards registered through them. If there was another service of this type that existed, I’d switch to them in a heartbeat. And I will no longer recommend them here.
    - brainbag 5y ago
      Google doesn't allow prepaid cards last I checked. I tried to use a card from privacy.com and the Google form explicitly stated that you can't use prepaid cards.
    - notreallyserio 5y ago
      You'll still owe the money, but it's unknown whether or not they'll come after you or report you to credit agencies (which they can do w/o SSN). I guess you could use a fake name and address, though.
    - hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
      Last time i checked AWS didn't accept prepaid cards. Even if they did, they could still after you if you live in the USA, and if the amount in question is significant, also in other countries.
- izend 5y ago
  I was actually successfully in reversing a $500 AWS bill. I had needed an Active Directory domain controller so I found one in the AWS marketplace and deployed it to an EC2 instance. Well guess what, the DC must have had some malicious start up scripts in it because it proceeded to download a few TBs of data from outside to the AWS EC2 instance which equaled nearly $500. I complained and AWS immediately reversed it without any need to escalate. This was on a personal AWS account so no relation to any large organization. Morale of the story, dont trust AWS marketplace images from sketchy sources.

I just learned that I need to pay aws 400$ for last month. I was thinking it would be 50$.

by kovek 5y ago

I just learned that I need to pay aws 400$ for last month. I was thinking it would be 50$.

It's a very special kind of evil. They can always argue it's your fault, because you haven't read something, you misunderstood something. There are even stories circulating of people who lost their life savings by mistake but the AWS team charitably decided they will forgive them just this time, how nice of them! Everybody knows it's complex to their advantage, they are not stupid - but they can always defend themselves using the flexibility card. I don't believe a class action would ever happen.

avidphantasm 5y ago
Yes, the “let’s hook up your credit card to the Internet” part of cloud computing still makes me nervous.
- imwillofficial 5y ago
  Use a prepaid credit card. Boom. Protected
  - stavros 5y ago
    privacy.com is great for this.
    - bradknowles 5y ago
      Except they are in the process of changing their bank that they work with, so that they can change the type of cards they issue, and you have until the end of December to change over all your old cards from the old format to the new one, which means changing the card numbers, too. This is a royal pain in the ass for those of us with hundreds of cards registered through them. If there was another service of this type that existed, I’d switch to them in a heartbeat. And I will no longer recommend them here.
  - brainbag 5y ago
    Google doesn't allow prepaid cards last I checked. I tried to use a card from privacy.com and the Google form explicitly stated that you can't use prepaid cards.
  - notreallyserio 5y ago
    You'll still owe the money, but it's unknown whether or not they'll come after you or report you to credit agencies (which they can do w/o SSN). I guess you could use a fake name and address, though.
  - hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
    Last time i checked AWS didn't accept prepaid cards. Even if they did, they could still after you if you live in the USA, and if the amount in question is significant, also in other countries.
izend 5y ago
I was actually successfully in reversing a $500 AWS bill. I had needed an Active Directory domain controller so I found one in the AWS marketplace and deployed it to an EC2 instance. Well guess what, the DC must have had some malicious start up scripts in it because it proceeded to download a few TBs of data from outside to the AWS EC2 instance which equaled nearly $500. I complained and AWS immediately reversed it without any need to escalate. This was on a personal AWS account so no relation to any large organization. Morale of the story, dont trust AWS marketplace images from sketchy sources.