The article is from April 2024, and AWS announced it would stop stopped charging the account owner for bad/unauthorized requests to S3 as of May 2024.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...

(2024)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203126

I always recommend using random strings for bucket names. If you want/need it to be human readable then use a random suffix instead.

It's simple - stop using AWS ... or Azure ... or ... Follow DHH and learn to manage your own boxes.

TLDR: any kind of usage based billing, where you don't control the usage, will have issues of cost explosions. It doesn't matter much what it is exactly.

Get your own machines. Get colo instead of cloud.