u/OkEnd5112

Hey everyone! i’m selling 2 tickets for EDC VEGAS May 15-17. Please let me know if u have any questions in the comments.

Wanted to give an update to my previous post about the ~$15.5k AWS bill caused by a DDoS/unexpected traffic spike on my S3.

After going back and forth with AWS support, they initially reduced a large portion of the bill, but the remaining amount was still something I couldn’t afford. Based on advice from u/duluoz1, I reached out to Jeff Barr and that ended up making a huge difference.

From there, the case was escalated internally, and AWS ultimately approved an adjustment for the remaining balance. The bill has now been fully resolved.

I genuinely can’t express my gratitude enough to the AWS team and community. Although I received a lot of criticism in my posts, many people reached out, offered advice, and guided me in the right direction.

For anyone else building side projects:

• Set up budgets and alerts immediately
• Don’t leave S3 public
• Use CloudFront

Link to my prev discussion posts:

First post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1rkz50f/15000_s3_bill_for_ddos/

Second post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1s1md42/aws_reduced_my_15k_s3_bill_to_105k_after_a_ddos_i/