Extremely high bandwidth usage on Amazon EC2 instance

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I have a m3.medium instance on Amazon EC2. Things are under development and my usual bandwidth usage is no more than 200 to 300 MB per day. I just noticed a spike in my EC2 bill and found out that I used 350+ GB bandwidth in just 10 hours yesterday. Is that even possible? Its cost is almost $40. What should I do?

Thanks

Best Answer

  1. it's likely that your server has been compromised, so do your due diligence to check this out.

  2. start a packet capture so you can determine the nature of the traffic.

  3. If you determine that the server was compromised, you may be able to work with AWS support to get the charges reversed.