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“Hey Bob— why is our AWS bill so high this month… oh shit”

You joke but one of many organizations weakest points is lack of prompt alerting. I think the FBI recently put out a list of weakest points and this was maybe number 4 or 5 on the list. I’ll do some googling and see if I can find it.

This is a forum of engineers and builders - if a lot of data were being exfiltrated from your cloud accounts right now, would you know? What would your response plan look like? Maybe this could be a good way for all orgs to review those practices and make sure they have a plan.

we've caught a few "oops I almost spent a million dollars" through cost alerting on AWS. Unfortunately, the time resolution for billing isn't great. I will say, much to my surprise, AWS comped us for the money we wasted even when it was our own fault.

I think if you're likely to not notice spending a million bucks right away, you're the kind of firm amazon wants to hang on to.

Lol. "Hey Bob - why are we in the news for a breach?" Seems closer given the news reporting and their tardy response.

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