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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not like these free play periods are a surprise to them. They are in complete control of how hard their servers get pounded and when.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sure, but AWS only has so many servers ready to spin up at any one time