Patent attributes
A centralized networking configuration in a distributed system includes a plurality of computing devices implementing a networking configuration server and a plurality of nodes of a service provider network. The computing devices are configured to obtain, at the networking configuration server, client input throttling instructions and client billing information, determine, at the networking configuration server, based on the client input throttling instruction and client billing information, to apply a networking configuration option provided by the client input throttling instructions to a particular category of traffic associated with a service instance of a network-accessible service of the service provider network, transmit, from the networking configuration server to a particular node of the provider network, the networking configuration option, and implement, at the particular node, the networking configuration option.