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What is the host that guarantees not to do this? Azure took out our entire prod subscription once due to a shared IP that they allocated to us being used by another customer in an attack.

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It's possible that I've simply not hit the corresponding circuit breakers but no issues with AWS for similar launches and spikes in traffic. It's expensive though, and my experiment with Hetzner was a misguided effort to reduce costs.

I had an AWS account get shut down because Netcraft straight up lied to them that there was some ongoing and active criminal activity and the server needed to be shut down immediately. Obviously no criminal activity, or even simulated criminal activity. It was hosting a web frontend for a common security tool, and they just happened to see the banner while scanning the internet.

I confronted Netcraft about it and they just told me that they didn't actually detect anything like criminal activity, but they need to say that or else Amazon won't take their reports seriously. Pretty fucked IMO.

> it's expensive

yeah, because their business model is to hope you have very expensive spikes. legitimate or not

I reckon their business model is for the architecture astronaut who set up Wingman[0] to leave the company and then everyone is too afraid to shut down it’s 1000 node k8s cluster.

[0] - parody microservice in famous skit.

AWS will not do this. I've heard of Azure doing this more than once. GCP I have no idea but if something does happen on GCP good luck talking to a human, better luck them not just telling you that you did something wrong.

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