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> Update that setting in your routers (qdisc in Linux) as part of the API call that allocated a resource. If you claim your routers don't have a limit like this I call shenanighans.

Eh. AWS's edge network is highly distributed. Unless you want an even split of your rate limit across every possible way out of the network, you'd be much better off settling for an even split across your EC2 instances, and there's no room for bursting in this model. Enforcing per-instance limits (on any dimension) sounds pretty feasible, though.

This wouldn't generalize straightforwardly to services that don't have obvious choke points that can impose this sort of throttling, such as, I think, DynamoDB.




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