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Comment by HugThem

Summary:

He published a 14GB file and one day there were 2700 downloads resulting in ~30 Terrabyte of traffic.

He had the file behind CloudFlare, but since CloudFlare does not cache files larger then 512MB, all the traffic went to his S3 bucket and Amazon billed him $2700 for that.

parent HugThem 6 years ago

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