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by snowpalmer 4575 days ago
I had the exact same thing happen to me. 2 days of 20 instances running and then amazon called me. I shut it down and revoked permissions immediately.

They did refund the money.

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I just checked my EC2 page and have found $45 worth of charges from instances that I shut down weeks ago. Would it have automatically re ordered some if the bidding price dropped below a threshold? When I looked at my management console there were no EC2 instances running. This has turned out to be a very expensive experiment in LTC mining.
Yeah, I'd say that anyone on Github that has somehow leaked keys is in for a nasty surprise (or has already received one)