Help!
I'm being charged $5.07 a day to serve files that don't exist in Cloudfront. This is essentially all my Cloudfront bill, and I've kind of had enough of paying for it.
Are there any AWS people in the fediverse who might know how to cut my bill, or stop paying for 404 errors like this?
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/aws-requests-help/
#amazon #aws #Cloudfront #amazonaws
James Cridland
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2026-10-19 04:20:13 UTC
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