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by 015a 1800 days ago
No. S3, like most AWS services, has uncapped costs. If you experience higher than expected load, such as a DDoS attempt, you'll burn through the preallocated spend and you'll still get a bill afterward.

This doesn't appear to actually shut down the resources once the preallocated spend is exhausted. Its just a way to pay for bills preemptively instead of when you receive them. Its an accounting thing, not a new feature.

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Just put your S3 bucket behind a CloudFront CDN and you're golden :)