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After doing some math it doesn't feel like a ddos:

- $104k at ($55 / 100 GB) = 189 TB of traffic

- It means the popular ~3.5 MB media file was downloaded ~54M times

- Which sound like a lot, but if you get popular in a country with 1.4B people, it's not (~3% accessed).

What if it happens at AWS Cloudfront? At $.1/GB it sums up to ~$18k. In the light of these, Netlify's offer of ~$5k seems generous.

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The author claimed Netlify's own support agent said it was an L7 ddos and offered a 95% concession because it was a ddos.

There is no reason to question whether it was a ddos or not because, allegedly, both parties in this dispute already agree it was a ddos.

Also, DDoS or not DDoS it's very reasonable to believe that an individual (or even a company) isn't ok for a 100K USD bill.

Billing amounts should go through quotas requests, so you can explicitly ask to be migrated to the upper level, but by default have an active safety net.

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