Protecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 from DDoS attacks
amazon-s3, amazon-web-services, security
Solution
I would argue that it is a concert. Not on the technology side, but certainly on the financial side. If for some reason your content is downloaded excessively from S3, you are paying for it.
If you want the content accessible by all, then there is no S3 policy that can help you.
If you want to track your spending, I suggest using AWS Billing Alerts. You can use a CloudWatch alert to send a message to SNS (and to your email) once your total bill for the month gets to X dollars.
Problem
I have hosted my blog Amazon Web Services S3 (static files with hosting). Should I add any policies or measure to further protect my account from DDoS/high bandwidth consumption?