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Re:Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:01AM (#21782706)
These guys receive requests from mobile devices. Afaik sending unencrypted HTTP requests is not allowed on some platforms (e.g. iOS).
Re:Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:51AM (#21782590)
At such a high volume of requests it probably makes sense to consider going one abstraction level lower by replacing HTTPS with plain SSL sockets based communication for further cost reduction.

Nice deep dive into the S of HTTPS anyway.