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

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Gero

Your account was not hacked. You sent out the password (yes, access keys are passwords) to the world. You should consider yourself lucky AWS refunded you the money, as technically you are responsible for those charges.

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Juan Manuel Ramallo

lucky me I didn't had to pay for my mistake 😅 lesson learned anyways 😇