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What are you referring to, exactly? That doesn’t sound like AWS at all. AWS are very well-known for bill forgiveness. It’s not something set in stone, but if y
by JimDabell 2y ago
What are you referring to, exactly? That doesn’t sound like AWS at all.
AWS are very well-known for bill forgiveness. It’s not something set in stone, but if your bill explodes accidentally, even due to a mistake you made, they will normally forgive it if you ask them. You don’t need to go running to social media at all.
- morningsam 2y agoYou're right, I was getting two relatively recent posts mixed up: 1. After a DDoS attack, someone got a $100k bill from Netlify for his static site and after he asked to have it waived, they generously reduced it to $5k. Only after his posts about it blew up did Netlify waive it completely. [1] 2. Someone got a $1k bill from AWS because lots of people made _unauthorized_ requests against his empty S3 bucket. AWS did agree to waive it immediately, prior to any social media posts. [2] I probably just remembered (2) as "that ridiculous billing situation involving AWS" but got the details of what exactly happened mixed up with (1). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203126
- rmccue 2y agoFor (2), AWS _also_ has now shipped a change that makes those requests non-billable permanently: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3-no-charges-several-http-error-codes/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...