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Pretty clever scam. He had a huge list of accounts, then set up a script that took advantage of the free introductory compute AWS gives to new users. When the s
by reidjs 4y ago
Pretty clever scam. He had a huge list of accounts, then set up a script that took advantage of the free introductory compute AWS gives to new users. When the script ran out of the accounts to cycle through, it fell back to the old system.
- CommitSyn 4y agoThey should've bought a few more million accounts on Fiverr and updated the yaml file.
- 411111111111111 4y agoHow can you consider it a scam though? They paid 50k and saved hundreds of thousands according to this story (90+k reduced by 90% for 6 month.) Google is the only one that got scammed as far as I can tell.
- paxys 4y agoIt's a scam because (1) they did not promise a cost reduction for just a few months, and (2) what they did was illegal and/or against the terms of service of the company's cloud provider. Just like how selling you a perfect working car for a great price – which just happens to be stolen – would be a scam.
- antifa 4y agoThey thought they were getting optimizations to their AWS infrastructure, but were actually using stolen resources from GCP.