Maybe you could rig up something that shuts down the instance? Or does Amazon charge you even then?
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:16 PM, David Fifield <da...@bamsoftware.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:56:36AM -0700, Arthur D. Edelstein wrote: >> > Amazon sucks and they don't have any automatic way to shut down a >> > service. I emailed them and they were very clear about that. The best >> > you can do is set up an email alert at different cost threshold (which I >> > have done). But that requires someone with credentials to be awake and >> > online when it happens. This is the main reason I want to drop Amazon. >> > (Apart from the billing concerns, Amazon's CDN, technically, is nice and >> > fast and reliable.) >> >> Would it make sense to add some code to your meek server to monitor >> bandwidth usage and automatically shut off if a limit is reached? > > I don't think that helps because I think you will still get charged for > requests+bandwidth even if the origin server is unresponsive or returns > an error. I could be wrong about this. Yawning wrote some such code a > while back. > > Even if you cut off all abusive use of bandwidth, if the adversary can > figure out how to charge you for requests, they cost $1 per million on > Amazon. > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
