Amazon Web Services Gets DDoS Attack and the Client Waits (ReadWriteWeb)
October 6th, 2009
An apparent DDoS attack on Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the weekend left a web-hosting code service down for about 20 hours before the problem became resolved. The attack raises questions about how fast Amazon responds to its clients in times of attack and what level of trust customers should place with one cloud service provider. Sponsor Bitbucket hosts everything on Amazon EC2. They also use …
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Amazon Web Services Gets DDoS Attack and the Client Waits (ReadWriteWeb)