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I got pegged to the wall by aws once on a hobby project. $1500 racked up in two months. Apparently I left a snapshot in some kind of instant restore state to the tune of $0.75/hr. I used the instance for 2 days, and then shut everything down. Or at least thought I did.

The account I did it on was tied to my "junk" email, so I didn't catch amazon banging on my door saying my payment info needed to be updated. Well until I did happen upon one of the emails. Nearly had a heart attack.

Talked to aws support and they full refunded me. Very very kind of them, but now I'm terrified to touch anything aws.