Postmortem: unbounded auto-scaling of lambda combined with oversight on internal rate limits caused unforseen internal ddos.

Just wait for the medium article “How I ran up a $400 million AWS bill.”

"On how I learned 'recursion'"

I asked my friend who's a senior dev if he ever uses recursion at work. He said whenever he sees recursion in a code review, he tells the junior dev to knock it off.

He created a lambda function that spawned more lambda functions and the rest is history

If he actually knows how to crash Amazon, you have a new business opportunity, albeit not a very nice one...

It'd be hilarious if you kept that impression going for the duration of the outage.

thats cute xD

thank you for that big hearty laugh! :)

Don't get nitty about saying "my X". People say "my plumber" or "my hairstylist" or whatever all the time.

"my developer"

"my boss" "my QA team" "my peers" "my partner"