As a Linode customer, I guess this wouldn't have happened with AWS, but the way they handle it is still far better than "your server, your bandwidth, deal with

As a Linode customer, I guess this wouldn't have happened with AWS, but the way they handle it is still far better than "your server, your bandwidth, deal with it" that you'd get with e.g. Hetzner dedicated servers. We had several hours of downtime, which sucks, but other than that we didn't have to worry about taking measures against the DDoS ourselves.