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Kirk G's avatar

THIS is exactly why I stopped early with AWS. Too confusing as to what you could and couldn't get yourself into, and my sense was they wanted it that way. No thanks.

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SarahC's avatar

I had an incident when I was a junior developer where I accidentally pushed my free aws account credentials on github. We had a 15k$ billing no more than 24 hours later. We stopped everything, shut down everything the bad guy put to keep using it. I screamed and cried for God knows how long thinking my mistake will be the downfall of the little company of 3 people I adore that accepted to give me an internship there.

I called AWS knowing they had the future of our startup in their hand. The power balance was so strongly in their favor and me being in this position and so young and unexperienced, it was an awful experience. We didn't pay a penny in the end, but it was a traumatic experience and I would have prefer them to prevent someone from putting ourselves in this position in the first place.

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