The Perfect On-Call Excuse

Content Hey, are you sleeping? Yes, now shut up You forgot to turn off the AWS instance

So someone decided to create an AWS Lambda that calls itself recursively without a timeout limit. That's not a bug, that's a financial suicide note. Lambda functions have a 15-minute max execution timeout for a reason—to protect you from yourself. But forget to set it? Congrats, you just created an infinite loop that'll keep spawning new instances until your AWS bill looks like a phone number. The best part? AWS won't stop you. They'll just keep charging while your function enthusiastically calls itself into oblivion like an ouroboros made of JSON and regret.

So apparently even the men's room runs on cloud infrastructure now. When AWS goes down, so does your ability to go... down. The ultimate proof that we've over-engineered society: your bathroom privileges are now hostage to Jeff Bezos' server farms. Next time your product manager asks "can we move this to the cloud?", show them this picture of biological functions being denied due to digital dysfunction. At least the bathroom has better error messaging than most AWS status dashboards.

When you accidentally send that internal company rant about AWS pricing to the entire engineering distribution list instead of your teammate's DM. The panic that sets in when you realize 16,000 developers just got an email they definitely weren't supposed to see is the exact moment you understand why email recall features exist (and why they never actually work). Amazon's response? Fire everyone who saw it. Problem solved. Can't have a leak if there's nobody left to leak. Classic enterprise damage control strategy right there. It's like doing git reset --hard HEAD~1 on your entire workforce. Pro tip: Always double-check that "To:" field before hitting send. And maybe don't keep "[email protected]" right next to "[email protected]" in your autocomplete.

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Content 1 Am Devloper iamdevloper The AWS status page right now.. GIF I'LL JUST PUT THIS OVER HERE... WITH THE REST OF THE FIRE. 22817, 1:40 PM 264 RETWEETS 296 LIKES