<story><title>Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora&apos;s Mirrors</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>I think Digitalocean has their own package mirror for their image.&lt;p&gt;AWS is just being ignorant. If I were in charge of Fedora infrastructure I&amp;#x27;d block them and send them instructions on how to setup a mirror.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>The fact that this is EPEL strongly suggests that it was set up by an AWS user, not by Amazon themselves. EPEL is not used by default in any common AWS AMIs. Perhaps it is an Amazon Linux user who enabled EPEL via Amazon&amp;#x27;s package, but it&amp;#x27;s not supported in the most recent version of AL so Amazon seems to have addresses that issue anyway.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora&apos;s Mirrors</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>I think Digitalocean has their own package mirror for their image.&lt;p&gt;AWS is just being ignorant. If I were in charge of Fedora infrastructure I&amp;#x27;d block them and send them instructions on how to setup a mirror.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbolino</author><text>Though there are probably things AWS could do anyway, this could well be caused by a large customer using a custom AMI, and not because of anything Amazon did or didn&amp;#x27;t do.</text></comment>