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Presumably the costs for a platform are passed on to the platform's customers from that platform's cloud provider (with profit). When a spike happens due to, sa
by Xophmeister 3y ago
Presumably the costs for a platform are passed on to the platform's customers from that platform's cloud provider (with profit). When a spike happens due to, say, a DDOS, does the platform first have to negotiate with the cloud provider to waive the cost?
Presumably the costs for a cloud provider are passed on to the cloud provider's customers from that cloud provider's operating costs (with profit). When a spike happens due to, say, a DDOS, does the cloud provider first have to negotiate with its downstream suppliers (e.g., energy, network peering, etc.) to waive the cost?
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How far down the chain does this go? Or maybe insurance steps in at some point -- or every point -- to break the chain?
- bauruine 3y agoIt's all just lost profit. It doesn't cost AWS more than it does you copying 190TB to your NAS over LAN.
- brodouevencode 3y agoNot necessarily - there are some costs we just eat. However in the event of outside actors having a reputable CDN in place to mitigate these things is worth your time and money.