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		aeyes on May 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP e... It has the same cost as a successful response which can quickly add up to a few hundred dollars per month with a couple of DNS enumeration scans. Google Cloud and Azure also bill DNS like this. Unless you need some of the advanced features you really shouldn't host your DNS in the big cloud providers.

technion on May 13, 2024 | [–]

Cloudflare don't bill like this, part of why I moved off route 53.

withinboredom on May 13, 2024 | | [–]

Neither does Digital Ocean, for that matter.

beeeeerp on May 14, 2024 | [–]

That’s not entirely true - aliases to AWS resources are free (their suggested “workaround”).

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