Update 7.05.2024 The S3 team is working on a fix: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1785386554372042890 Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning? A few weeks ago, I began working on a PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files th
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