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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by throwaway894345 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @02:45PM (#31911449)
An occasional $4K charge is negligible for a business (almost everyone is better off dealing with this sort of overrun than troubleshooting servers, all else equal), and anyway this is a particularity of AWS CloudFront's billing protections rather than a fundamental flaw with serverless.
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by ggktk on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @05:03PM (#31912988)
In most countries in the world, $4K charge is absolutely not negligible.
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by throwaway894345 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @05:22PM (#31913182)
I doubt this is true. If you're operating a tech company anywhere in the world, I'm guessing $4K is pretty close to negligible. In whatever case, indexing by country is misleading, "tech companies" in general is more interesting, if there are a handful of tech companies in the third world for which this doesn't hold, it doesn't invalidate the generalization.
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by jsiepkes on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:44AM (#31919365)
In SMB companies around the world "an occasional $4K charge" is definitely not negliable.
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:45AM (#31920014)
Again, we’re not talking about SMBs, we’re talking about tech companies generally. (What share of SMBs are there doing serverless or with any cloud footprint at all?)
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