and also that they are horribly designed and will slam you with several thousand requests in the span of a minute
anyway a hearty "fuck off" to amazonbot for giving us a brief downtime event1 while everything scaled up. enjoy being blocked
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the fact that that forum is on the dot aws TLD is already enough to go insane. why does an amazon product have a fucking TLD
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and inflating their profits by ddosing everyone who is using their services, incurring their own bandwidth and compute costs into your pocket.
(this is illegal, but who's going to sue Amazon?)
This has been a legit problem in the hosting industry, as the process has been to leave clients to block the bots themselves as to not strain any potential relationships with the people who make these shitty bots. They need to be blocked from jump, globally.