epsteinflights

Not much - I made all GraphQL requests GETs and cached them in CloudFront, which has some drawbacks but is pretty effective at keeping costs down because it allows Aurora to scale to zero as long as every request is in cache. The last week has been interesting (60,000 page views) and if things continue at that scale (doubtful) I might be looking at $60/month, mostly in Aurora costs. Most other months of the year had less than 100 page views total, nearly all cached, and it cost under $3 to run for the whole month.

Sure, done.

Business Insider also made searchable versions of both the black book[1] and the flight logs[2] - they're done to a much more professional standard than my buggy little side project is, but they're both unfortunately behind a paywall.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/search-jeffrey-epsteins-litt... [2]: https://www.businessinsider.com/every-flight-made-by-jeffrey...

Email [email protected] and I'll give you the CSV I built the database from.

Yep, it's all GraphQL - I built the site a few years ago to play around with Apollo and AWS's serverless GraphQL offering and then it kind of snowballed from there.

Hey - creator and admin of the site here. Didn't ever expect to see this on HN! I built this about two years ago - looks like it's picking up some traffic this week due to the new trial. Happy to answer any questions.

(Account is new because I don't want this project associated with my regular account and my professional portfolio. Shoot me an email at the address on the site if you'd like me to confirm I'm the admin.)