Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors

Why the hell is it not required for AWS to host mirrors considering how large of a company they are if they're gonna use Fedora in their product? There has to be some way to enforce a maximum user base before contributions are necessary to avoid being blocked.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution.

Stephen Smoogen of Red Hat wrote a blog post today around 5+ million more EPEL-7 systems beginning in March.

The past three months now there has been a 5+ million surge in Fedora/EPEL traffic and it's placed a strain on the systems.

It's about doubling the number of unique IPs connecting to the mirror system.

In today's blog post, Smoogen describes it as "I am not sure what changed in Amazon in March, but it has had a tremendous impact on parts of Fedora Infrastructure and the volunteer mirror systems which use it."

With some extra publicity on the situation, hopefully whatever the underlying cause of the change in traffic pattern will hopefully be better handled now by Amazon.

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This sounds like an inherently solvable problem. Start making mirrors that blacklist Amazon/AWS IP ranges.