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Edit: never mind, figured it's obvious.
Aren't DDoS requests pretty much simple GET requests? Is it not possible to determine which requests to serve and which ones to ignore?
Contact Akamai who recently bought the DDOS mitigation service Prolexic. They may be able to mitigate the attack and save you bandwidth costs. Alternatively, call CloudFlare. Don't just absorb this through Amazon.
Isn't this title a little sensationalist without specifying who's under attack? I assumed it was a royal we and after clicking the link realized it was just this one site.
First a 2.6bn request/hour DDoS and then making the front page of HN... talk about getting flooded with requests. Hopefully making the front page will at least get them the attention of Amazon or enough donations to cover the temporarily (absurdly) high operating cost.
They claim they're able to handle the 2.5bn req/hour right now, and if thats true, the HN traffic wouldn't even be noticable
Out of curiosity, who pays more -- the attacker or the victim? Purely from a monetary perspective. Edit: never mind, figured it's obvious. Aren't DDoS requests pretty much simple GET requests? Is it not possible to determine which requests to serve and which ones to ignore?
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Can you elaborate on why you think Akamai is horrible?
I've dealt with them in their CDN role on multiple occasions. They're the most abhorrent combination of incompetence and arrogance that I've ever met in the tech industry. They're the Oracle of the network world. Just don't waste your time on them. There's plenty better and cheaper CDNs nowadays. Leave Akamai to the Governments and MegaCorps, they deserve each other.
Sitting down and writing a blog-post seems a pretty laid back reaction to $30k/day in Amazon bills... First thing I'd have done is take the site offline and call the various DDoS mitigation services (Incapsula, Cloudflare, etc.). Pretty surely most of them would gladly pick up the slack here, given the free PR (possibly even in mainstream press) they get in return.
Not sure that turning the light off is the first thing you want to do when you're bullied. And pretty certain that there's zero PR value in those stories.