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Moving to an elastic infrastructure in the face of an attack that aims to increase usage, seems like a recipe for a huge bill.. The wikileaks guys are obviously
by mh_ 16y ago
Moving to an elastic infrastructure in the face of an attack that aims to increase usage, seems like a recipe for a huge bill.. The wikileaks guys are obviously uber smart and have thought through the pros and cons of the move, but it seems an unusual choice..
- risotto 16y agoAs it's mostly static content, they're likely just using Amazon as a CDN, which isn't very expensive at all. Makes perfect sense actually. It'll be interesting to see what Amazon has to say about this.
- ra 16y agoUsing CloudFront (Amazon's CDN) does promise to solve their immediate DDoS problem. I don't know much about wikileaks as an organisation but I expect most of their money comes as donations via the web site. So, clearly having wikileaks.org up at high traffic times is important.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoA competent hosting company - with a sufficiently fat upstream pipe - should be able to handle it. Amazon has the scale to absorb this attack.