Empty S3 Bucket AWS Bill

How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning? . . . A few weeks ago, I began working on the PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free-tier limits. Apparently, it wasn’t. My bill was over 1300$, with the billing console showing nearly 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests executed within just one day! Usage (Requests) 100M 75M 50M 25M 0 Apr-01 Apr-02 Apr-03 Apr-04 Apr-05 Apr-06 US East (N. Virginia) EU (Ireland) Total usage Requests My billed S3 usage per day, per region

A screenshot of an English technical article explains how an apparently empty private AWS S3 bucket generated nearly 100,000,000 PUT requests and an AWS bill exceeding 1300 dollars. The joke is the absurd contrast between an empty bucket and an enormous cloud bill, making it a reaction image for unexpected infrastructure costs, security oversights, and catastrophic billing surprises.

• @gentoomemes / 10978 2024-04-30