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Protection against DDoS attack on my Functions

Is there a way to protect my Functions from a possible DDoS attack that would cause excess charges by calling my Functions thousands times a minute or something similar? What protects me from waking up one day to see that I am thousands in debt? The only thing I 've found so far is the alerts but I don’t think that is a measure of protection.


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Bobby Iliev
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December 12, 2022

Hi there,

As of the time being, the Functions Namespaces have a limit of up to 600 invocations per minute. This means that it is not possible to generate thousands of requests.

If you need this limit increased, you can request open a support ticket for this here:

https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

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