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		dbond on June 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual... First thought, isn't this a tad dangerous for the supplier? There seems to be nothing stopping me from using huge amounts of bandwidth just to screw with them. Or if I really was a bad guy, how much of an effective dos attack could be launched on ec2 hosted sites in the same az from these servers?

quantumpotato_ on June 11, 2013 [–]

How would you use lots of bandwidth after you created the servers?

dbond on June 11, 2013 | [–]

I downloaded a couple small files with wget and got 10MB/s, so just point it at a large file, maybe even loop the command.

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