what are some subtle ways to drive up the costs of an AWS account without doing something glaringly obvious like spinning up hundreds of compute instances
Get a student account.
My bad, you said "drive up" costs kek >>106586138.I have no idea, but I'm sure there is some kafkaesque way to do it. AWS is a fucking labyrinth of nightmares
>>106586136Your best bet is causing traffic. Take a few nodes that already have high traffic and make it more. Only outgoing traffic get's billed.
Just keep using it. AWS will raise the bill on their own, they don't need help
Good morning SIR!
>>106586136add a bunch of db replicas or increase compute instance sizes maybe, increase lambda memory, etc.. there may be some strange pattern you could "accidentally" introduce like a cyclical sns/sqs system that will just create a cost by simply existing. Not sure how if it needs to be a hidden change though
That's a crime.
>>106586136Just be inefficient. I scan all paper documents at work at 400dpi to waste storage space. No one knows what it does so they leave the setting alone. Just make slightly bad choices no one can fault you for . Make deployments slightly too big. Use the second best algorithms for things. Run that test one more time just for good measure . Make the "mistakes" small and make sure it's not obvious.
>>106589183>>106587504>>106586159>>106586136>wonders why Indians are taking their jobs
dirtbags itt.
>>106586136Lots of DNS requests if they use route 53. I used to use them and only paid like $5 a year for my domain I only use for email, but I got scared after reading about people who got $80k bills because of DNS DDoS attacks. Then I just started using my registrar's DNS hosting instead.
>>106590477I am on my way out and I dont give a fuck I just want these faggota to eat shit and fail
>>106590619There is no way aws charges you when someone looks up your dns lmao. Next thing your gonna tell me every time I exhale in an aws datacenter someone is paying for it
>>106586136Egress
>>106587504>there may be some strange pattern you could "accidentally" introduce like a cyclical sns/sqs system that will just create a cost by simply existingyeah draw tons of sqs and lambda in an atchitectural diagram
If you want to make a VM slow, just have a fork bomb program run. You can adjust it to your liking and bring a system to its knees. Or you can just have it slowly load the system over time. Eventually you run out of processes and logging in becomes impossible and the machine will have to be rebooted from the management console.There are many ways to fork bomb, you can get creative with it.
elasticcache
>>106586159route53 health check rapes your server with 10 request per second starting and you can go up to 100rpsThe only thing in AWS that's completely free of charge>>106587504>lambdaThis. Just lambda can rake up 100k bill>>106590955Egress isnt as bad as cloudflare shills make it out to be.
>>106590863>electricity charges for HVAC equipmenttechnically, yes.
>>106589070A victimless one.
>>106586136If the codebase manages scaling you can put some small logic bugs or race conditions that periodically prevent a cluster from scaling down during periods of low use. The ECS bill can get out of hand fast.
>>106586136start migrating everything to amazon services. it adds up and locks you in. start storing things on s3--that's the easiest way to lock someone into aws. if you need help, ask your account rep for a recommended way to do something and watch him recommend 20 different services.
>>106590863They do though
>>106586136Inter-region trafficSneaky lambdasPublic bucket and fetch from outside the org
>>106590477Not currently in tech but my boss only hires Indians.
>>106586136shit ton of outbound internet traffic
>>106596248That's for querying, not being queried.
>>106586136place resources across-regions. For example, start your application in us-east-1 and if it uses lambdas, set up the lambdas in eu-south-1.If you use s3, change everything to the most expensive storage class.Stand up a lambda that does something but make it very, very long running. Make it run a lot of times.
>>106596278last one won't work if it's "requester pays"
AWS Cost Anomaly detection will catch everything you do, especially if the owner has alerts set up. Any cost scaled up too quickly should be caught, on ANY metric (assuming it's set up properly)
>>106586136bandwidthits literally impossible to pinpoint accurately in cost management on aws. shits pure evil
>>106586136DDOS it