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That doesn't make sense to me. You pay for the time you have the droplets running, so it seems kind of silly to have them sit idle for a bit before you give th
by mkl 7y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. You pay for the time you have the droplets running, so it seems kind of silly to have them sit idle for a bit before you give them work to do.
- wgerard 7y agoI don't work at a cloud provider, but I think the reasoning is: It's a common pattern in malicious actors to immediately spin up several droplets and immediately peg the CPU on each one. There are, obviously, non-malicious actors who do the same, but it's a bit like wearing a balaclava in public: Likely to raise some suspicion just because it's associated with malicious actors.
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