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It's a strange choice to use Souq.com as the target here. They could have used any AWS customer but chose to use one owned by Amazon. It probably is genuinely o
by cavisne 8y ago
It's a strange choice to use Souq.com as the target here. They could have used any AWS customer but chose to use one owned by Amazon. It probably is genuinely one of the biggest Middle East customers on AWS but going this way would really have forced Amazon's hand.
- wastedhours 8y agoIt needs to be big enough so you can try and rationalise the morality of the DNS call cost (even being a few dollars, you're still being a bad actor in this scenario), a site known and well classified by traffic monitors that they won't get blocked on their own. I guess also that hitting an Amazon domain means the logical recourse is to get AWS restrictions (such as we have here), rather than having an aggressive this party company outright trying to sue.