At least there's one beneficiary of DDOS attacks: AWS
 

Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing offers some measure of relief against DDOS attacks. Case in point, WIkileaks: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...mazon-ec2-ddos

yea AWS is great.
i designed my affiliate program software for deployment to AWS as it would allow for super flexibility

AWS proves that Amazon is not a one trick pony

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They might be cloud hosting, but they are not that inexpensive.

they will put them down again