• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I once set an S3 lifecycle setting that accidentally affected 3 years worth of logs to Glacier. The next morning I woke up to a billing alert and an AWS bill with an extra $250k in charges (our normal run rate was $30k/month at the time). Basically I spent my entire add annual cloud budget for the year overnight.

    Thankfully after an email to our account rep and a bunch of back and forth I was able to get the charges reduced to $4,300.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah luckily Amazon is good about mess-ups that are one-time like this. Was the cost because you were pushing to, or retrieving from Glacier?

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        1 year ago

        Deleting from. We move logstores and I added an ageout policy for anything over 1 day, to “easily” empty a bucket overnight. I forgot that I had been cycling stuff to glacier after 6 months, and there were 3 years of logs in there.