Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
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Re: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
#2Amazon support is pretty good so you might be in luck and not get billed, especially since you caught it quick. I am sure you aren't the only person who was compromises like this.
Re: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
#3Ouch. I'm sure Amazon will help him out..300/day is an expensive lesson to learn.
Re: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
#4What would be the current payout in Bitcoins for $300 per day approximately?
Re: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
#5What would be the current payout in Bitcoins for $300 per day approximately?
Even if it's a cent, who cares? This is just money laundering.
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#7I also saw this in the wild today on a friend's aws account. Same instance size. Spot at $2. Just one instance fortunately.
The security group permitted SSH from three /24 netblocks.
Re: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
#8What would be the current payout in Bitcoins for $300 per day approximately?
Even if it's a cent, who cares? This is just money laundering.
I don't think it's exactly money laundering.
It's like all theft. At low enough risk, the thief doesn't care what percentage of the value (of the $ charged) they recover. In this case, they are running very large CPU (not GPU) instances on someone else's dollar, not caring about the inefficiency of it because it can be automated and is difficult if not impossible to trace.
Re: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
#9I've spent a large amount of time fending of bitcoin miners from abusing my site https://cloud.sagemath.com. I like the mathematics and promise of bitcoin, but in practice it is an enormous waste of resources (time, electricity, etc.).
Re: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account
#10That is why AWS has billing alerts that will send you an email or text if you reach a predefined spending threshold. I had some trouble to find at first on their website so maybe it should be more visible.
The cool thing with Amazon is that they definitely pay attention to your opinion as a consumer. A few months ago, I sent an email to Jeff Bezos to complain about the Amazon Locker interface that I found cumbersome - it used to show you all lockers including the full ones and there was no way to see which ones you can actually deliver to - and his assistant answered and let me know that my message was forwarded to the appropriate team. They changed the interface a few weeks later. Maybe the author of this post should do the same.