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Discussion on: I was billed for 14k USD on Amazon Web Services 😱

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Pert Soomann • Edited

I remember story few years back when someone's blog or app went viral unexpectedly, so it auto-scaled up infrastructure to $5,000 worth of AWS bills. Downside of zero downtime :)

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Sergey Kislyakov

5000k or 5k?

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Pert Soomann

Ah yeah, it's 5,000 not 5,000K indeed. Good spot :)