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by drieddust 3524 days ago
When you are DDOSed they will keep supplying the resources for you to consume and pay them extra. Cloud is commodity so don't expect to be treated like a special snowflake. Your distress is their opportunity to make extra money.

Offtopic but relevant. One of my customer moved their email to O365 without understanding the differences from being ON-Prem. Now they are struggling to adopt their business processes to then limitations MS imposes.

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>When you are DDOSed they will keep supplying the resources for you to consume and pay them extra.

If the attack is tiny, sure. Otherwise they'll just cut you off.

> If the attack is tiny, sure. Otherwise they'll just cut you off.

Yet they get to claim inexhaustible capacity.

For when you want it for traffic you want to pay for, not for unwanted traffic no one wants to pay for.