Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill

Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by shepardrtc on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:22PM (#31909716)

> To be honest I don't really understand the sentiment that developers can get away with not knowing basic sysadmin stuff and at the same time have to spend relevant amounts of time, energy and money to get up to speed with cloud solutions, k8s and so on.

There was a thread here the other day on how DevOps has failed. And this should hopefully show everyone why DevOps is needed. Cloud infrastructure is complex and needs specialists, otherwise simple mistakes can be very costly. If I make a new lambda, you better believe I'm watching invocations.

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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by jvanderbot on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:55PM (#31910154)

Or does it? The whole point of GP is that you don't need the complexity that would require devops staff to manage if you are not serving > 10s of millions of reqs in huge bursts with long stretches of dead time between.

I don't know, I'm curious about the actual requirements vs the marketing buy-in and resume building that may happen when designing the system.

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