[HugThem]

Summary:

He published a 14GB file and one day there were 2700 downloads resulting in ~30 Terrabyte of traffic.

He had the file behind CloudFlare, but since CloudFlare does not cache files larger then 512MB, all the traffic went to his S3 bucket and Amazon billed him $2700 for that.

[iakh]

I think the most important part was left out: > AWS employee discovered that 3655 partial GETs to the object might have actually been delivered as full file requests

[agustif]

Wonder how many of those happen and Amazon charges their customers...

HAHAHA