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Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances by jrockway on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:28PM (#23929081)
25Gbps is 250 cable Internet users downloading the release of your new software. What you call a DDOS is actually a woefully underwhelming instantaneous transfer rate.
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Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances by Epixors on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:54PM (#23930119)
If you're distributing releases (or anything, really) users should not have to go directly to your object store...
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Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances by speedgoose on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:36PM (#23929891)
You should put your objects storage behind a CDN if you expect that many downloads. That's much cheaper and faster.
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