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Yep it is THAT obvious...

Also usually AWS doesn't turn attack into revenue, they push customer up the "support tier" (gold/platinum whatever they are called now) and strip the DDOS traffic from expenses as…

I have no much experience with co-located services so can't really comment on that. I can't go in detail how and what mitigations are applied on AWS site also, as I feel obliged to…

My comment was a bit more general than pure "packet". I agree thats where the disconnect between low lever service provider and customers come - providers revenues and expenses are…

What do you think. Sustained DDoS attack must at least generate enough revenue to cover sustained expenses if they are incurred or no?

In my experience Amazon will most probably write off their bill if they refuse to pay, but will refuse further service as well.

People? No. IP/AS numbers. Where traffic lands first, on which POPs... Its pretty obvious.

Software engineer, I am pretty easy trackable in internets too :]

If product revenue doesn't grow faster or even along with traffic (expenses) it will eventually knock itself out of business one way or another.

I am not telling anyone to GTFO, nor, I believe, Amazon does. It depends on a DDOS, there are a lot of smaller-scale DDOSes are just absorbed. Some are stupid filtered easy enough …

Internet as a whole yes, making a single attacked web service resilient to DDOSes at a low cost is quite a challenge.

Geo DNS (to be more precise AS numbers is what is used) is something that is sometimes used as a very last resort - customers in China are customers as well, and if you drop everyt…

No one likes DDOSes from China. One can plead Amazon as much as one wants. Pay or get booted, there are probably 2 engineers paid 6 figures a year by Amazon getting paged for this …

haha