How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
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How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
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Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#2This was an extremely interesting article. I hope Google rectifies this type of behavior. This is actually pretty scary.
Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#3Try http://cloudability.com to keep track of your cloud costs.
Note: I am not affiliated with them.
Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#4That such a simple thing on your part could result in such an extreme and expensive result implies something is wrong with the design of the system you're using.
Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#5I'm pretty surprised Google didn't have the client download the images instead. Wouldn't that be a better solution or am I missing something here?
Pretty interesting though and if this becomes a big enough story you can bet Google will be changing something; the last thing they need is someone using Google Docs to DOS websites.
Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#6Try http://cloudability.com to keep track of your cloud costs. Note: I am not affiliated with them.
Thanks for the link!!
Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#7very interesting findings, good read.
Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#8But, why re-downloading every hour?
Does merely having the spreadsheet passively open in a browser trigger that, or was some other process re-loading the spreadsheet every hour? (If the former, I wouldn't be as forgiving of Google. I understand the desire not to cache possibly-private data, but proper URL design and conditional GETs should be able to prevent the entire download on an automatic hourly schedule. And even if the latter – the author had chosen to reload the spreadsheet each hour – I'd want Google's design to allow browser-side caching to work for such embedded and/or generated images.)
Re: How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
#9Can you limit bandwidth with AWS?
Also, why would the spreadsheet be calling these images every hour. Did you have the spreadsheet open? Does google do this call even when no one is viewing the spreadsheet?
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