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Comment by joncrane | Hacker News Reader

If true, this is pretty huge. As if the AWS "You blew through your budget" emails right around midnight of New Years were only an appetizer.

Edit: AWS Spurious Budget Email Barrage: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/7ndvli/anybody_get_spu...

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Oh so that's not just me?

I had a lingering account that cost me 3 cents a month. All of a sudden I get an email freaking out about all these alarm thresholds I'm blowing past. I just outright closed my entire account because trying to delete the offending S3 entities would fail without an error message.

I missed what happened with AWS? Any details

I'm assuming the person you replied to is referencing emails that AWS sent out on New Year's, stating incorrect forecasted usage.

Some discussion can be found on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7ndlk7/aws_anyone...

not sure on exact details, but I received one as well, on a free-tier account I had sitting around with an empty dynamodb table that was showing very high projected usage. it was enough that I logged in immediately thinking that account had been hacked.

nope, still empty table, deleted it and went to bed. glad I wasn't the only one who got that.

Same here. Mine was on standby so I terminated it.

I wasn't sure what was going on so I nuked everything cancelled my account and will hope for the best.

Amazon sent me an email this morning (Jan 3, 2018) to say I have a bill but I had already cancelled my free account. I can't see what I owe (hopefully zero dollars) because my account is now non-existent.

One tiny Ubuntu instance I barely used and then put on standby. Then terminated.

Ugh :(

Same for me, a dynamodb table I created 5 years ago with one k/v pair (test=foo) and never accessed since...

I got an email that I was going to go over usage, and then another minutes later that I was over. Logged in, only had a lambda sitting doing nothing.

Haha got the emails too

haha

Oh shit! I thought it was just a bug in my setup! Should have searched around before disabling everything in a panic.

do you think maybe someone used the exploit to mine coins? no probably not someone would have noticed surely.

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