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The Price Is Wrong: How to Save on AWS

AWS Insiders

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The One Mistake That People Make When Using AWS

Rahul: There is one time I accidentally checked in a private key on a GitHub repository. And this is before they had automation and immediately my account turned into a Bitcoin mining account. Rahul: If only they were shut off their instances, they could cut their bills by up to 75%. The number of instances that are just literally left on costing hundreds of thousands of dollars is non-trivial. He says AWS has no way of knowing whether you deliberately want to leave the machine on because they can't look inside the machine.

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