• chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
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      8 months ago

      AWS charges $0.09/GB. Even assuming zero caching and always dynamically requested content, you’d need 100x this “attack” to rack up $1 in bandwidth fees. There are way faster ways to rack up bandwidth fees. I remember the days where I paid $1/GB of egress on overage, and even then, this 100MB would’ve only set me back $0.15 at worst.

      Also worth noting that those who’d host on AWS isn’t going to blink at $1 in bandwidth fees; they’d be hosting else where that offers cheaper egress (I.e. billed by megabits or some generous fixed allocation); those that are more sane would be serving behind CDNs that’d be even cheaper.

      This is a non-issue written by someone who clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about, likely intended to drum up traffic to their site.

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          8 months ago

          Fortunately, you’d be very hard pressed to find bandwidth pricing from 18 years ago.

          The point is the claimed issue is really a non issue, and there are much more effective ways to stress websites without needing the intermediary of fediverse.