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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by raphaelj on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:14PM (#25377979)
It's ever worse for services like AWS Cloudfront.

One of your competitors could just rent a cheap server on OVH with uncapped transfer and incur you $10k in cost in a few hours.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by cambalache on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:13PM (#25378779)
Maybe that it is your cue to move your server from AWS to OVH*

* I dont have any idea about OVH

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by tcoff91 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:47PM (#25380380)
CloudFront is a CDN. What the poster you've replied to is talking about is a competitor setting up a server that repeatedly downloads your content to rack up a huge CDN bill. OVH is not a suitable replacement for a CDN so you can't migrate from Cloudfront to an OVH server because a server is not a viable replacement for a CDN.
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