When a Promotional Event Made S3 Access Logs Grow Faster Than the Data They Tracked

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How a 48-hour promotion turned a 50 GB bucket into 400 GB of logs Short version: a marketing promotion intended to drive traffic revealed a hidden cost and a structural weakness in our S3 logging pipeline