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Postmortem: unbounded auto-scaling of lambda combined with oversight on internal rate limits caused unforseen internal ddos.

• throwthere 5y ago
  Just wait for the medium article “How I ran up a $400 million AWS bill.”
  • madmulita 5y ago
    "On how I learned 'recursion'"
    • Breza 5y ago
      I asked my friend who's a senior dev if he ever uses recursion at work. He said whenever he sees recursion in a code review, he tells the junior dev to knock it off.
• tornato7 5y ago
  He created a lambda function that spawned more lambda functions and the rest is history