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Re:AWS mistakes to avoid by late2part on Sunday December 27, 2015 @02:02AM (#10796711)
It's been true five times in the last three years for me. The elasticity isn't always there and service limits are not always granted when needed.

I don't know what an AWS TAM is but the SAs have tried and failed.

Make a new account and try to run 1000 c4.4xl in parallel for 1 hour. It won't happen.

That's not what happened the five times, but it's illustrative.

And who defines what is a need and what is a want?

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Re:AWS mistakes to avoid by slaman on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @05:18PM (#10809443)
That's because of a history of bitcoin mining abuse. People post their API keys on github every day and Amazon refunds almost all of the lost compute time.
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