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> $5 per web ACL per month.

Really?

> Limits:

> Web ACLs per AWS account: 10

> Rules per AWS account: 50

> Conditions per AWS account: 50

> IP address ranges (in CIDR notation) per IP match condition: 1000

Huh? Is this really intended for production, with such low arbitrary limits?



that's only prevention. If you need more they will raise it to a lot. currently AWS SMS has a really low email sending limit too, like 5mails/s however if you ask for a raise they raise that too something like 100.000mails/s.


That thousands separator notation is ambiguous when communicating outside of a country that uses it as a standard[1]. You mean 100k mails/s, I think? Using a SI prefix like that is the easiest way to deal with it, or thinsp (u+2009) seems to be the international standard for digit group separation.

[1] only a handful of countries use it, and they don't have English as their primary language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Examples_of_use (row 5)

edit: regarding the disagreement over "only a handful" in a reply: that map is showing the separator between units and fractional part I think, not the thousands/millions/etc grouping separator.


Interested to know how one could send anything less than a full email :)


they did specify a rate. so it could just be a really slow connection for some mail servers.


yeah, sorry. I just forgotten about it. currently I work so much with the german thousand seperators that I totally forgotten about the other standards. currently i use scala's bigdecimal library which handles these things really great. While before I used python where I sometimes needed to manually convert between them. but you are right I shouldn't use anything like that in a global forum.


While I grant you the "don't use English as primary language", "a handful of countries" does not stand up to scrutiny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#/media/File:Decim...

I don't even need to count to figure out that 80+ countries use that system :)


From the page you linked:

The convention for digit group separators varies but usually seeks to distinguish the delimiter from the decimal mark. Typically, English-speaking countries employ commas as the delimiter—10,000—and other European countries employ periods or spaces: 10.000 or 10 000. Because of the confusion that can result in international documents, the superseded SI/ISO 31-0 standard advocates the use of spaces and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry advocate the use of a "thin space" in "groups of three".


That's a map of decimal marks, not group delimiters. They're not the same thing, nor are they always opposites.


> $5 per web ACL per month.

Each Web ACL is basically a group that can contain multiple rules.

As noted, limits are easily raised with a quick email to Amazon.


Yeah that sounds comparatively exorbitant to me. It's not exactly "only pay for what you use" in the sense they normally apply it. I was expecting $0.0000x per request or something...


It's $0.60 per 1M requests in addition to the $5 arbitrary pricing.


+ $1 per rule




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