08. What are your AWS horror stories?

AWS Bites

In this Halloween-themed episode, Eoin and Luciano tell some AWS horror stories! Get ready for some trick or treat!

Of course we have to start with billing and we tell some of our failures with predicting cost ending up with a nightmarishly bad billing surprise! We also discuss some horror stories from the perspective of AWS developer experience and finally we touch on some Cloudformation terrors!

In this episode we mentioned the following resources:

• AWS NAT Gateway: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-nat-gateway.html
• AWS High Performance Block Storage https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
• Cloudformation UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloudformation-update-rollback-failed/

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