5 entries

Everything, newest first.

Every AWS story on the site: billing shocks, outages, support failures, suspensions and lock-in, written up with evidence or submitted by the people who lived through them. The strongest posts name dates, amounts, case numbers with identifying digits removed, and the exact wording that came back.

Billing shockThe bill is the most common reason people end up here, and it is almost never the compute. It is the NAT gateway processing charge on traffic you thought was internal, the cross-AZ transfer inside your own cluster, the e…

Outage or reliabilityThe failure is bad. The information is worse. The status page stays green while your pager does not, the update says "elevated error rates" for the third hour running, and us-east-1 takes services with it that you were t…

Support failureBasic support means you cannot open a technical ticket at all. Developer means one person, business hours, best effort. Business is a percentage of your bill for the right to be asked for a correlation ID you already sen…

Support failure2026-09-27

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by SeregaG

Billing shock2026-08-07

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by Pranab F

Account suspension2026-08-05

AWS is simply a dumb pipe

I have learned that AWS cannot be trusted with persistent data. They can be used for compute resources for spot jobs, assuming you can get them to approve your limits (quotas..lol). But they cannot be…

anonymous

Account suspension2026-08-05

AWS is holding my data hostage with no explanation

I did nothing wrong. They still haven't told me what they think I've done wrong, but they have my data locked up in an s3 bucket that I cannot access. It's been 22 hours now, still not even an explana…

anonymous

Account suspension2026-08-04

They suspended my account, took my email server down with it, then told me to read the email they sent me

AWS suspended the account running my mail server. The suspension notice was delivered by email. To the mailbox they had just switched off. Recovery depended on DNS I still controlled.

Verified anonymous