The AWS bill heard around the world
Summary Here’s a summary in case you just got a scary AWS bill: I received an AWS bill for $2,700, which was much higher than expected. I traced the high bill to a 13GB disk image that he had stored in an S3 bucket and exposed through a CDN. The CDN was trying and failing to cache the disk image, which was causing high bandwidth utilization. I contacted AWS support, and they were able to waive the bill. This will likely be the case with you as well if this is the first time this has happened to you. AWS also explained that I could have avoided the high bill by setting the bucket to private and not using a CDN (an S3 best practice; but in this case the bucket was intentionally public for various reasons). ...