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		praveenpenumaka on March 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to burn the most money with a single click in ... Unfortunately, there is nothing inbuilt in AWS to mitigate these conditions, except for monitoring for "anamolous" behaviour.

bspammer on March 30, 2020 [–]

I mean there must be something, because otherwise taking down AWS would be as simple as the above. After 50 steps, you've created a quadrillion images.

praveenpenumaka on March 31, 2020 | [–]

They surely have very high upper limits on S3 files.

Lambda functions have limit on concurrent functions you can run.

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