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Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the finger-pointing dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Amazon has denied reports that its European sites were brought down by a DoS attack by a hacker group sympathetic to Wikileaks cause. The retailer was a planned target for the attackers, called Anonymous. But Amazon said it was a hardware failure in its European data centre network that caused the half hour outage in Europe."

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  1. Beginning of the End of DDoS? by Notquitecajun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if the recent WL issues signal the end of DDoS for at least large companies - Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, etc. I can foresee them putting enough money into their servers and infrastructure that, at some point, they really couldn't be overwhelmed. Is this going to wind up being a hardware or software issue in the future in preventing DDoS attacks?

    1. Re:Beginning of the End of DDoS? by nicholas22 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It all depends on the actual DDoS load. There's no such thing as infinite bandwidth, you see. Amazon was down for 30 minutes in 4 countries on Sunday. And this by some quasi-organized group of script kiddies. So no, I don't see that being the case yet at all...

  2. Re:Yes but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree, back in 1776 a bunch of evil weasels took over the colonies and look at what happened. a lot of innocent British soldiers sent over to protect the citizens died!

    On their first terrorist attack, they cowardly disguised themselves to put the blame on innocent Native Americans. If they had succeeded, they could have caused an Indian massacre by the British.