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		jrockway on July 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances 25Gbps is 250 cable Internet users downloading the release of your new software. What you call a DDOS is actually a woefully underwhelming instantaneous transfer rate.

Epixors on July 23, 2020 | [–]

If you're distributing releases (or anything, really) users should not have to go directly to your object store...

speedgoose on July 23, 2020 | [–]

You should put your objects storage behind a CDN if you expect that many downloads. That's much cheaper and faster.

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