Distributed Rate Limiter for Cloud Services

A C++17-based rate limiter using a token-bucket algorithm, integrated with Redis for distributed quota tracking and AWS Lambda for cloud deployment.

Features

• Multi-threaded C++17 implementation
• Real-time quota sync with Redis
• Scalable AWS Lambda deployment

Setup

1. Install dependencies: libhiredis-dev, aws-sdk-cpp
2. Run locally: make run
3. Deploy to AWS: make deploy

Usage

• Local: ./rate_limiter
• Lambda: Trigger via API Gateway