Public EBS snapshots are great, and thankfully a design other clouds didn't copy. I've found all kinds of stuff in there, including a 900GB Oracle backup of a publicly traded manufacturer's accounting system. It doesn't require much imagination to understand how this kind of data could be profited from, given relatively low effort
It seems unlikely a lot of people didn't already know about this, it's hard to miss even if you only spend a few days with the EC2 API, and it's also quite surprising AWS have yet to correct the design. 90% chance it is mostly a UI problem -- there are no warning labels around snapshotting in the EC2 UI
It seems unlikely a lot of people didn't already know about this, it's hard to miss even if you only spend a few days with the EC2 API, and it's also quite surprising AWS have yet to correct the design. 90% chance it is mostly a UI problem -- there are no warning labels around snapshotting in the EC2 UI