2 questions.
1) Who stands to gain from doing DDOS attacks? Either the business competitors who wants to put you out of business or the "protectors" themselves (so they can sell their DDOS protection service"??
2) Can you use AWS services to launch DDOS attacks?
Someone attacked our company
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Re: Someone attacked our company
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Public access point. The server accepts pageviews, so they DDoS'd that.
The article mention the use of lambda/serverless. If he had a server many of these issues would not exist in the first place :)
And I does not looks like a DDoS either, this amount of connections is quite normal for mid-sized apps, and connections can be kept open in case you app is slow, making your stats higher than it actually should be.
Btw, two servers plus a bit of architecture simplification solves this and cut the costs down to ~$400 or less.