Re:Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading
by fulafel on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:45AM
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These are valid considerations, but not tied to S3 (or uploading).
It's probably a happy problem if you end up worrying about S3 as a very DDoS-able part of your system.
Running up hosting bills is an scenario that can be addressed with various technical means (like a sibling comment explains). Many people seem to judge the risk * probability too small to put a lot of preemptive effort into it. It's basically a question of how much damage would be done until your monitoring catches it. AWS has also been known to "forgive" bills that were caused by malicious attackers in some situations.
It's probably a happy problem if you end up worrying about S3 as a very DDoS-able part of your system.
Running up hosting bills is an scenario that can be addressed with various technical means (like a sibling comment explains). Many people seem to judge the risk * probability too small to put a lot of preemptive effort into it. It's basically a question of how much damage would be done until your monitoring catches it. AWS has also been known to "forgive" bills that were caused by malicious attackers in some situations.