One of the biggest perks of being a student is the student discounts. BUT with great privilege comes great responsibility. In the middle of last year I had it in my mind that I wanted to explore what other career options were open to me besides \u201cSoftware Developer\u201d, and that\u2019s where I stumbled upon the position of \u201cDevOps Engineer\u201d. Looking at all the job postings there was a cloud platform that was attached to it everywhere: \u2018knowledge of AWS\u2019. So I set out to learn AWS and got a student account. However, even though the student account was free, you must include a credit\/debit card on file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward to today. I get a charge on my card for $713.85 from AWS! In the time succeding that fateful decision, I went on to learn about DevOps and concluded that it wasn\u2019t what I thought it was, and I learned how to interact with the cloud using GCP and preferred that wayyy more so I pretty much abandoned my AWS account, but kept it open because whenever I was about to, there was this caption on top basically saying \u201cif you close this account your user name and email can\u2019t be used forever\u201d– I had it in my mind that someday I might need to use the account for whatever employer that used AWS so I should just keep it \u201cjust in case\u201d. Because of me keeping it open and not really paying attention to it in the month prior, someone had hacked my account and raked up a charge that I was just seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I had to cancel my credit card and open a dispute with AWS for the fraudulent charge. Even though there are \u2018student account\u2019 options for this service to learn how to use it, AWS especially as a platform is not ideal for a student to learn by themselves. Whatever password or sensitive information is on there needs to be encrypted.\u00a0 This goes for any promotion that has a special student rate\u2013at some point it expires or you yourself neglects it and then things get really expensive really fast, so keep track of all your subscriptions, delete the ones you don\u2019t use (especially if they make you keep your credit card on file), and know what you are getting into!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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