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Everyone in this thread is talking about how this is not a Serverless problem, but a cloud problem. That's correct, but the point stands. Bandwidth is pure marg
by shubhamjain 3y ago
Everyone in this thread is talking about how this is not a Serverless problem, but a cloud problem. That's correct, but the point stands. Bandwidth is pure margin and to me, it's a bit scummy to a) charge this much for bandwidth and b) offer no tools to combat attacks that aren't in the customer's control. According to this thread[1], Netlify doesn't even have an option to take a site down for a while if it's under DDoS attack.
Netlify has multiple options to solve the problem: billing controls, request throttling, setting bandwidth limit, and waving of overages if it was a genuine DDoS, but it doesn't seem they are interested because that'd be like killing the golden goose. Just look at all the things bunny.net CDN offers [2].
It's disappointing how we acquiesce to explanations of cloud providers that are motivated by nothing other than greed.
[1]: https://answers.netlify.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-traffic-to-netlify-on-starter-tier-plan/18163/8 https://answers.netlify.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-traffic-to-...
[2]: https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360014190440-Understanding-Pull-Zone-Network-Limits https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360014190440-Und...