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		ifwinterco 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 Probably stupid question (I am not a network/infra engineer) - can you not simply rate limit requests (by IP or some other method)? Yes your customers may well implement stupidly aggressive retries, but that shouldn't break your stuff, they should just start getting 429s?

otterley 4 months ago [–]

Load shedding effectively does that. 503 is the correct error code here to indicate temporary failure; 429 means you've exhausted a quota.

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