alt Hacker News> 82 percent of Maven Central demand comes from fewer than 1 percent of IPs
This is interesting, and the author goes on to say that 80% comes from the largest cloud providers. But I wonder how much of that is coming from CI pipelines and how much is actually the cloud provider's usage?
Almost 100% of it. If Sonatype or the PSF want to start charging the major cloud providers for bandwidth because they can't be bothered to cache the content, that's not unreasonable but any associated costs will be passed along to consumers (which is also not unreasonable).