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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by hnlmorg on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:01AM (#31908607)
In my 25 years of running production services, I honestly cannot think of one company I've worked for that would have accepted their function being stopped in the middle of the night.

AWS already has a recourse for incidents like these: refund the spend. That is far more reliable than trusting an organisation can tolerate an outage.

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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by HWR_14 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:34AM (#31909064)
The difference is none of the little sideprojects I work on are worth $4k in a month, let alone in a day. Obviously most companies want to spend the cash, but they should want as many programmers using AWS for sideprojects as possible.
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by hnlmorg on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @05:45PM (#31913436)
It was more the "big" part of the "big companies" statement I was disagreeing with, rather than the "companies" part.
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