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0 pointsjpambrun2y ago0 comments

Yes. It made many request with Range star- (i.e. without end).

500$ is not making a huge dent in the monthly bill for this. I just got a few laughs at my expense from colleagues..

I don't know how AWS meters, but, if your assumption is right, I can abuse this and generate a huge bill to anyone just by starting streams and not consuming then. I could generate 10s of gbps of "apparent" billable traffic with a puny VPS.

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nicolas_172y ago

You could also generate 10s of gbps of actual billable traffic with a puny VPS by forging TCP ACKs and getting AWS to send you data faster than you can actually receive it, but that's closer to an actual DoS attack and more likely to get you in trouble...

tedmiston2y ago

> I don't know how AWS meters, but, if your assumption is right, I can abuse this and generate a huge bill to anyone just by starting streams and not consuming then.

I suppose that would be easy enough to test.

I was curious how video streaming services handle the case where a stream is started or partially consumed. Mux meters it in terms of [seconds of] video segments delivered:

> Cost is per minute of video delivered. To calculate video delivered, we measure the number of seconds of video delivered to a video player. Note that if a segment of video is delivered, it is charged, even if the viewer doesn’t actually watch the video.

[1]: https://docs.mux.com/pricing/video#delivery

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