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Serverless Horrors
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#2After a quick check on Vercel stories, it seems all payments were discarded or mistakes in the first place.
Does it really happen to really have to pay such a bill? Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed?
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#3After a quick check on Vercel stories, it seems all payments were discarded or mistakes in the first place. Does it really happen to really have to pay such a bill? Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed?
> Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed?
This is what scares me, is social media the only way to get things sorted out nowadays? What if I don't have a large following nor an account in the first place, do I have to stomach the bill?
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#4I thought this would be about the horrors of hosting/developing/debugging on “Serverless” but it’s about pricing over-runs. I scrolled aimlessly through the site ignoring most posts (bandwidth usage bills aren’t super interesting) but I did see this one:
https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-c...
About how you make unauth’d API calls to an s3 bucket you don’t own to run up the costs. That was a new one for me.
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#5I thought this would be about the horrors of hosting/developing/debugging on “Serverless” but it’s about pricing over-runs. I scrolled aimlessly through the site ignoring most posts (bandwidth usage bills aren’t super interesting) but I did see this one: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-c... About how you make unauth’d API calls to an s3 bucket you don’t own to run up the costs. That was a n…
How to destroy your competition. Love it. Also why i dislike AWS. Zero interest to protect their SMB customers from surprise bills. Azure isn't much better but at least they got a few more protections in place.
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#6This site is a bit dated. I remember in response to this Vercel added a way to pause your projects when hitting a spend limit. I enabled it for my account.
Still, it made me question why I'm not using a VPS.
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#7I thought this would be about the horrors of hosting/developing/debugging on “Serverless” but it’s about pricing over-runs. I scrolled aimlessly through the site ignoring most posts (bandwidth usage bills aren’t super interesting) but I did see this one: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-c... About how you make unauth’d API calls to an s3 bucket you don’t own to run up the costs. That was a n…
I believe they changed that shortly after that blog post went viral:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...
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#8After a quick check on Vercel stories, it seems all payments were discarded or mistakes in the first place. Does it really happen to really have to pay such a bill? Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed?
No, at least in enterprise consulting for these kind of hosting, usually there is a contact person on the support team that one can reach directly.
However these projects are measured in ways that make Oracle licenses rounding errors.
Which naturally creates market segmentation on who gets tier 1 treatment and everyone else.
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#9After a quick check on Vercel stories, it seems all payments were discarded or mistakes in the first place. Does it really happen to really have to pay such a bill? Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed?
> Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed? This is what scares me, is social media the only way to get things sorted out nowadays? What if I don't have a large following nor an account in the first place, do I have to stomach the bill?
I can't imagine them sending it to collections. What kind of recourse would a company like Vercel have if you don't pay it?
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#10> I had cloudflare in front of my stuff. Hacker found an uncached object and hit it 100M+ times. I stopped that and then they found my origin bucket and hit that directly.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t that something that can happen to anyone? Uncached objects are not something as serious as leaving port 22 open with a weak password (or is it?). Also, aren’t S3 resources (like images) public so that anyone can hit them any times they want?