[daveevad]

> So long as the bill gets paid (and for an absurdly long time, even when it doesn’t), your data is treated as “this cannot be lost under any circumstances.”

Does anyone have experience with unpaid AWS S3 bills? I can imagine the work to delete some buckets is greater than traffic served.

[xyzzy_plugh]

Historically nothing happens with unpaid AWS bills. At one point I was receiving delinquent bill notifications from a previous client who went out of business for several years before they stopped.

Active services like EC2 instances will be stopped within months, but data at rest is likely to last many many months if not over a year. My information is several years old.

I had a client who was delinquent on every single AWS bill and went at least six months without paying at one point and their services went untouched.