It was over $500k in the email I got. Not a fun experience. My hands were trembling.

Makes you wonder - what if there really would be an incident where some massive amount of traffic got routed to your infrastructure by some heavyweight player? Say Wikipedia accidentally switches their IP to your CloudFront? Would you really be on the hook for $500k?

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Hamuko a day ago | parent [-]

Well, even if AWS tried to charge my credit card on file for $500k, it would definitely not go through. Then they’d probably either forgive your bill or just ban you, since I imagine the threshold for taking people to court is fairly high.

	▲	tatjam 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In a twisted kind of way, this is an advantage of going to court in the US being SO expensive, even $500k may not be enough to justify it!