Unexpected large spend with ConstructHub

[ali4579]

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

No response

What did you do?

I deployed construct hub with default settings

What did you expect to happen?

Cost < $100 a day

What actually happened?

It behaved as expected for 7 days and then over a period of approximately 24 hours it spent $10,000 and then went back to normal spend.

Web Browser

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OS

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Other information

I accept responsibility for the charges - I deployed a project with defaults and didn't pay enough attention to it, plus I wasn't paying attention to my budget alerts!

I have spent some time looking at what happened and I understand some but not all. It was a test stack and I'll be deleting it, but before I do delete it, I was wondering if you are interested in knowing what happened or if you want any information from me.

I haven't attempted to reproduce!!

[RomainMuller]

I'd be curious to know what service(s) was/were part of that $10K charge... I have some suspicions here, but I'd like to confirm them...

[ali4579]

So sorry, didn't see there had been a reply. I will get back to you with that info asap

[chris-bateman]

Was there anymore to this?

[mrpackethead]

Very curious to know about this.

[ali4579]

Hi Everyone

So sorry, there never seems to be enough time in the day to get back to this!

Looking at cost explorer, we see
June 21st
EC2 Other - $1887.97
Config - $731.11
ECS - $592.18
Step Functions - $86.87
Lambda - $36.19

June 22nd
EC2 Other - $3,481.24
Config - $1,457.37
ECS - $1,032.03
Step Functions - $128.91
Lambda - $27

All the cloudwatch data is still there, I'm just not 100% sure what I'm looking for. I can see tends of thousands of fargate executions. Am happy to go hunting for anything you think would be useful or we can possibly hop on a call, I'm in GMT+8

Ali

[rix0rrr]

Our default setup does something silly: periodically regenerate all documentation in case the doc generator has changed in the mean time.

I would recommend disabling that altogether.

[mrgrain]

This PR #1392 greatly reduced the number of StateMachine executions and thus cost. However the general issue that the cost of the system depends on npmjs.com still stands.