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Leaving AWS
March 29th, 2018
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Earlier this week I got a notification from the AWS console that
my billing alarm level had been reached. I'm glad I set it because
there's no other way I would have know that I was running up an
incredibly expensive bill.

Over the weekend I was experimenting with Nextcloud and linked an
AWS S3 volume as an extra share. Something went wrong and the
syncs were failing, but constantly retrying to download data. At
least, this is what I now believe is the root cause. At the time
I figured it was one of my public sites getting abused.

I went digging around in AWS to see if I could figure out who the
culprit was, but that was in vain. AWS is a labyrinth of excessive
overengineering, techno-babble, and the worlds worst
documentation. I can find no information about where the charges
are coming from beyond "bandwidth".

It's 2 days later and my bill is over $300. I logged a support
ticket asking Amazon what the hell is happening, but screw it. I'm
done. I don't need AWS shit, it was just the idea of fast
performance that brought me there. My sites are all static.

I unlocked my domains and I'm transferring them to Namesilo. I'll
save down some of the crap sitting in cold storage, re-clone my
static sites on the gopher.black pi, add in nginx and tell my
router to forward port 80.

The cloud can suck it.