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Hard lessons2022-06-28 · Archive

Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill

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“I have had an AWS Billing alert (Budgets) set up to prompt me when my monthly budget goes over $300 (my usual bill is $200/month).”

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Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill

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