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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by rglullis on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:58AM (#37842312)
For the use of the botnet...
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by 89vision on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:23AM (#37845661)
sure, It's no doubt an arms race. The prevalance of websites going down due to scaling issues feels like order of magnitude less than it was 20 years ago though. Purely anecdotal with no real data to back that up.
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by rglullis on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @12:23PM (#37846510)
Because the majority of sites run on/behind:

- AWS

- Cloudflare

- Azure

- GCP

- Great Firewall of China

Maybe there was some truth about "the world market for maybe five computers", after all...

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by 89vision on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:01PM (#37859029)
Sure, I fail to see how that invalidates my point
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by rglullis on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:37PM (#37863483)
What I am saying is that we are getting "scalable websites" today individually, but it has cost us overall resiliency because most of us all are hiding behind the big providers. I am not so sure if this is a good trade-off.
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