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Just curious, but how would "the cloud" help with such a problem? Sure, supposedly you could summon infinite computing power to handle the DDOS requests. But the computing power would not come for free, so the DDOS would still do serious financial damage.


You are paying either way. Thats just the way it works.

However, under one option, you pay and Amazon deals with the actual load, downtime, server stress, hardware improvements, etc.

Under the other, you get to deal with all of that AND get to be pissed off AND accomplish nothing for your business at the same time.


I'm curious, anyone has experience dealing with DDOS attacks on EC2? It does seem like a good option...


If you're using an instance as a load balancer it's limited to 1 Gbps.


There are several companies that create DDoS mitigation hardware/software. I have good knowledge that Amazon (et al) use several of these companies for solutions.




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