How To Prevent Cloud Cost-Skimming Fraud

Craig Hays
5 min readFeb 16, 2020

Rogue employees running your cloud infrastructure can skim money off your monthly bill. Here’s what you can do to prevent it.

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How Cloud Cost-Skimming Fraud Works

Cloud compute services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) allow developers to publish their own virtual machine (VM) templates to their global marketplace so that others…

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Craig Hays

FinTech startup to £105 million acquisition. Now I make stuff and help people with cyber security. https://craighays.com