Tor Cloud instance creates 1,024 Gigabyte root drive
Following the Tor Cloud instructions I created an Amazon AWS cloud Tor bridge and it ran fine for a month. Discovered when the first bill came and the $ were a lot higher than expected that the Amazon AMI (ami-d09403e0) that is the only Tor instance I could find is built from a snapshot that has a 1,024 gigabyte EBS store as it's root drive. Thats a lot for a t1.micro linux instance.
I followed the somewhat outdated Tor Cloud instructions and "clicked through" and did not catch and change storage size to something more reasonable (like 10 gigabytes) when I set it up. The AMI should probably be corrected and the "click next" instructions updated to make sure the drive size is reasonable.
The truly paranoid might suspect someone is actively trying to discourage people from helping Tor by creating more bridges in the Cloud.
You guy's didn't subcontract creating that AMI to the NSA did you .
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Username: swhalen