AWS Reproduced Our Lambda Crash, Then Blamed Us and Sent a Bill
1 Azzlain 0 7/7/2025, 4:27:52 PM
In May, we published a deep technical breakdown of a fatal AWS Lambda bug — Node.js functions inside a VPC making outbound HTTPS calls would silently crash after returning a 201. No logs, no stack trace, no errors. AWS eventually reproduced the issue internally.
This post isn't about the bug.
It's about what AWS did next.
They blamed our code — after confirming the crash themselves.
They revoked a previously offered $4,000 credit — without explanation.
They charged our founder’s personal card mid-dispute — with no invoice or warning.
They routed technical escalations through sales — not engineering.
They re-offered the same credit — now as a settlement contingent on silence.
And they privately asked us not to publish.
We published anyway.
This follow-up post is about what happens after you prove a platform failure in AWS — and why the support model, not the runtime, is the real risk.
Read the follow-up post here
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