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> I can't possibly see how this is Amazon's fault. You're arguing that you offer a service for free (for a little while anyway), and that more people are taking you up on that because they have logs lying around, because Amazon has prompted them in the past to save these logs?

You've got it backwards. The OP is saying that due to AWS UI changes, it's more likely that user's will have logging enabled, thus showing more value for s3stat. This leads to more subscriptions. It's a positive piece, not a negative!

I think you may not have read the whole post in detail. It's a positive post about an unexpected bonus from Amazons' change in default behaviour!

Well shit. I read the whole thing, not close enough apparently!

It's easy to be an idiot. Everybody does that sometimes. Kudos for your graceful reaction to being called on it. I think I'll borrow your approach next time I'm in a similar situation.

Although I mostly skimmed the article, I have to say that the feeling I got from the article changed a couple of times between positive v. negative. This left me confused and because of that I guess I missed the point as well.

For me, the words "amazon made me thousands of dollars" in the title rather set the tone.

I don't know whether the title has changed since your comment but I fail to see how "Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of Dollars" could ever be a negative story.

It was written in a format I'm used to seeing as "grumpy rant", mostly, and much of the language used was overwhelmingly neutral.

It's not your fault though. The way the article is written it sounds(!) like exactly what you are saying.