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enlythyesterday at 6:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

A few months ago I was going through my secondary email and noticed I was getting a $0.01 monthly bill from AWS.

Having not used AWS for years, I logged in to check it out, navigated through the Kafkaesque maze of their services until I found what I was looking for:

A lone S3 storage bucket, with one file, "Squirrel.jpg". A 200kB picture of a squirrel that I uploaded 8 years ago and can't remember why.


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baby_souffleyesterday at 6:47 PM

> I was getting a $0.01 monthly bill from AWS.

I wonder what the cost to AWS was for keeping track of that and running your CC. There's no way they made money off you / that 12 cents/year cost them *at least* 12 cents to collect every year

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mr_toadtoday at 3:39 AM

That should be below the threshold for AWS’s free tier. I have more than that in S3 and I’m not being charged a cent.