we had cron script on a very old server running for almost a decade, starting a multipart upload every night, pushing what was supposed to be backups to a bucket that also stored user-uploaded content so it was normal that the bucket grows in size by a bit every day. the script was 'not working' so we never relied on the backup data it was supposed to be pushing, never saw the files in s3, the bucket grew at a steady and not unreasonable pace. and then this spring i discovered that we were storing almost 3TB of incomplete multipart uploads.
and yes, i know that anecdote is just chock full of bad practices.
we had cron script on a very old server running for almost a decade, starting a multipart upload every night, pushing what was supposed to be backups to a bucket that also stored user-uploaded content so it was normal that the bucket grows in size by a bit every day. the script was 'not working' so we never relied on the backup data it was supposed to be pushing, never saw the files in s3, the bucket grew at a steady and not unreasonable pace. and then this spring i discovered that we were storing almost 3TB of incomplete multipart uploads.
and yes, i know that anecdote is just chock full of bad practices.