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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). ...

A subtweet is such a common thing that it has entered the English lexicon. The term itself has a very specific meaning according to Oxford Living Dictionaries: (on the social media application Twitter) a post that refers to a particular user without directly mentioning them, typically as a form of furtive mockery or criticism. ‘while he didn’t include Smith’s Twitter handle, that didn’t stop Smith from seeing the post, taking umbrage, and firing off a subtweet of his own' ...

I had a random thought pop into my head during a conversation one night so I tweeted it, “Christophernetes” Then Brandon Dimcheff chimed in with a very appropriate shortening, “c14s” Then Andy Randall chime in with what is now my display name on Twitter, “c14s for Short” Thank you all for this.