Amazon S3 Error Charges Update

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes Posted On: May 13, 2024 Amazon S3 will make a change so unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate are free of charge. With this change, bucket owners will never incur request or bandwidth charges for requests that return an HTTP 403 (Access Denied) error response if initiated from outside their individual AWS account or AWS Organization. To see the full list of error codes that are free of charge, visit Billing for Amazon S3 error responses. This billing change requires no changes to customer applications and applies to all S3 buckets. These billing changes will apply in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud Regions and the AWS China Regions. This deployment is starting today and we will post another update in a few weeks when it is completed. To learn more, visit Billing for Amazon S3 error responses and Error Responses in the S3 User Guide.

A screenshot of an Amazon Web Services announcement titled “Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes.” It explains that unauthorized requests returning HTTP 403 errors will no longer incur request or bandwidth charges, creating an ironic contrast with the uploader’s warning about attackers potentially bankrupting an S3 bucket through infinite requests. The image is used as a tech-industry reaction meme about cloud billing and unexpected infrastructure costs.

• @gentoomemes / 11239 2024-05-13