Only took 18 years since it was first reported.
In other words, a big customer finally got effected
Haven’t read into this too much, but I think the affected person that made this get attention was a solo dev that was prototyping a solution for one of his customers.
And the reason he raised a stink was because he had a huge bill, as the name he chose for his bucket was by chance the same an open source project used as a sample bucket name, so whenever someone deployed it without first customising the config, it was pinging his bucket and getting a 403.
Given the timing i suspect this was the article that drove the change. It was shared quite a bit over past few weeks.
This is why most of our thornier bugs eventually get fixed.
How the fuck did people tolerate this service when getting charged for fucking 403 errors?
because it didn’t happen to be a problem at the time
It makes me wonder how much income this actually provided to AWS.
Probably not much, but how many people noticed a few bucks here and there on a massive bill?
