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		andrewxdiamond on May 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack It’s quite insane the levels of effort S3 engineers put in to maintain perfect API compatibility. Even tiny details such as whitespace or ordering have messed up project timelines and blocked important launches.

Twirrim on May 1, 2024 [–]

All meeting some random arbitrary, maybe not even conscious, decision made by an early S3 engineer when they were implementing something.

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