{"id":7919201,"date":"2024-04-30T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2024\/04\/30\/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:22:38","slug":"how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/30\/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@maciej.pocwierz\/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7919204\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/How-an-empty-S3-bucket-can-make-your-AWS-bill-explode-640x308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/How-an-empty-S3-bucket-can-make-your-AWS-bill-explode-640x308.jpg 640w, https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/How-an-empty-S3-bucket-can-make-your-AWS-bill-explode-990x476.jpg 990w, https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/How-an-empty-S3-bucket-can-make-your-AWS-bill-explode-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/How-an-empty-S3-bucket-can-make-your-AWS-bill-explode-768x369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/How-an-empty-S3-bucket-can-make-your-AWS-bill-explode-766x368.jpg 766w, https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/How-an-empty-S3-bucket-can-make-your-AWS-bill-explode.jpg 1131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@maciej.pocwierz\/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1\">Maciej Pocwierz<\/a> accidentally created an S3 bucket with a name that was already used as a placeholder value in a widely used piece of software.<\/p>\n<p>They saw 100 million PUT requests to their new bucket in a single day, racking up a big bill since AWS charges $5\/million PUTs.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out AWS charge that same amount for PUTs that result in a 403 authentication error, a policy that extends even to &#8220;requester pays&#8221; buckets!<\/p>\n<p>So, if you know someone&#8217;s S3 bucket name you can DDoS their AWS bill just by flooding them with meaningless unauthenticated PUT requests.<\/p>\n<p>AWS support refunded Maciej&#8217;s bill as an exception here, but I&#8217;d like to see them reconsider this broken policy entirely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>| #AWS #S3bucket #Cloud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Maciej Pocwierz accidentally created an S3 bucket with a name that was already used as a placeholder value in a widely used piece of software. They saw 100 million PUT requests to their new bucket in a single day, racking up a big bill since AWS charges $5\/million PUTs. It turns out AWS charge that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[133],"tags":[806,557,807],"views":292,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7919201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919205,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919201\/revisions\/7919205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}