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 manishsharan on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:02PM (#31914231)

Hardening servers isn't as hard as it used to be. Ansible does a pretty good job and there are several examples of using it to harden your server. If you are using a VPS .. you could use packer and start with a fleet of servers based on your custom image.

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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by drdaeman on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:16AM (#31917354)

Oh, I don't disagree, I just meant it can be as complex as you want it to be. Hardening is just a rabbit hole that can go on almost forever - it's never really final until you declare that enough is enough, typically there's always something more one can do, if they have time and capacity.

Also, out-of-box distributions those days can be said to be already "hardened" compared to what we had 15 years ago.

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