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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by cutler on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:51PM (#14984667)
Isn't there also a third danger with anything that scales your bill as your app scales - the possibility of some black hat ddos-ing you for the hell of it?
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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by traduz on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:44PM (#14985056)
Yes, but I guess in that case you would put your lambda function behind an API gateway, and limit the user requests. If it's a static content you would serve it from a CDN. Not a specialist on this, but that's what I would do.
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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by tyingq on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:05PM (#14986296)
Wouldn't an API gateway typically limit requests per IP/end user?

I guess it could limit global request rate. But the idea of unbounded elastic services behind a global rate limiter is just funny to me. Like a Ferrari with a 50mph limiter.

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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by cutler on Friday August 11, 2017 @07:18PM (#14995187)
Yes, I still don't get it.
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