Another reminder to be extra careful about checking in AWS credentials into version control. You never know when you might open source that repository and someone can easily yank it from Github.
Actually this is what happened to us... our AWS credentials had accidentally been put into Github for a hackathon project several months ago.
Coincidentally, the incident also occurred around the same time (April 1-2). We were hit with $13,000 worth of EC2 usage before we shut them down and changed our AWS key... We reported to Amazon, and they are working on a refund.
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Another reminder to be extra careful about checking in AWS credentials into version control. You never know when you might open source that repository and someone can easily yank it from Github.
Actually this is what happened to us... our AWS credentials had accidentally been put into Github for a hackathon project several months ago.
Coincidentally, the incident also occurred around the same time (April 1-2). We were hit with $13,000 worth of EC2 usage before we shut them down and changed our AWS key... We reported to Amazon, and they are working on a refund.