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How do you prevent S3 from slashdotting your wallet if your site suddenly gets really popular?
by niftich 10y ago
How do you prevent S3 from slashdotting your wallet if your site suddenly gets really popular?
- niutech 10y agoYou can use a CDN like CoralCDN.
- devonkim 10y agoYou can setup jobs to run that fire when CloudWatch alerts fire noting that your bill is going up or that your hit rate for certain objects is going way up. I think there's a way to setup billing such that you can't exceed a certain amount in a month but that's a weird situation to try to hard stop charges without deleting everything in your account.
- hn_user2 10y agoYou don't really. I guess everyone's needs are different, but for me, hardly anyone reads anything I write. If I have a sudden surge in interest in something I wrote, last thing I want is to cut off access to it. Would rather keep paying the infinitesimal amount per page view to keep people reading it.