Thinking about creating intentionally misconfigured buckets with encrypted files that look like they have valuable stuff so the hackers waste tons of resources decrypting them only to see they are worthless
Couldn’t this backfire by possibly generating a large AWS bill?
they would copy the file offline and decrypt it there
It costs money to serve S3 objects out to the internet though. S3 GET request billing + the usual AWS egress fees, after you've burned through the free quotas. Egress is currently $0.09 per GB + tax.