DDOS attack

[Raven2014]

though, does Amazon have a real defense, or are they servers just much more robust because of the volume they need to handle on a normal basis?

That's exactly it, as other have said there is no "real" defense against DDOS beside outcapacity the attacker, Amazon's infrastructure is just "innate" in that regard. Basically they make sure they always have the capacity for holiday shopping (Prime day, Black Friday .etc.) when the traffic will increase many fold ... So to Amazon, a DDOS attack is no difference than the increase traffic spike they would see on a holiday, and they ALWAYS have more than enough capacity for it. Whenever an attack happens, Amazon's serve just look at it and thought "oh, is it Christmas today?" and scale up. Because of their ceiling is so high that I doubt any attacker would be able to exceed it.

[SnowVix]

Why can't they just trace back to where all the massive DDOS logins are coming from. There should be a way to trace where they come from.

tracing will end up with a massive web of compromised devices. the first D in DDoS stands for "Distributed". which are only getting easier to do as we get more IoT devices (smart fridge? is that really something you want?), which can be compromised to be roped into a botnet with pretty much zero alarm raised to the end user because they don't think about them as being computers.

[Rueby]

I've heard that DDoS attacks can be costly for the attacker as well, so it's not really sustainable for a long period I think. I think also the longer the attack goes the more Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS) start to kick in...I found it very interesting but I plan to research it further because my brain isn't wrinkly enough for this.

So I wonder if it's more of a 'weather it out' kinda thing until the body guard kicks in.

My smooth brain translated DDoS to this following analogy

Imagine you're at a restaurant, making an order....suddenly an influx of hundreds of customers come in, they start to occupy the space and begin to engage with the staff be it by complaining or placing an absurd amount of orders. The staff is overwhelmed by this chaotic situation and you (the legit user) is not getting proper service. The manager (network admin) then calls the police (IPS) starts to restore order (mitigate the attack) by dealing with these troublemakers (malicious traffic)

I guess an upside of all this is a stress test for SE to hopefully prepare for DT. Here's to hoping for a smooth release...

[Araxes]

And again. Entire Group kicked out of a Trial with a 400 player login queue after. How many Days is this going to last? I hope they get this sorted before Dawntrail otherwise this is going to be a disaster.

[RulerKelso]

chaos - omega, booted out of game right now (error 900002), with over 700 queue, definitely DDOS-ed again

[PineconeKing]

Booted out from Ragnarok (Chaos) with a 90002 as well!

[StriderShinryu]

Coeurl on Crystal. Just got the boot with no ability to reconnect due to the usual errors. Looks like NA isn't out of the cross hairs this time.

[Boblawblah]

Ultros is hurting right now as well. trying to farm EX trials for my zeta weapon and it's lagging hard

[Cincierta]

And booted as well. Good ol' 90002 while trying to do dailies.

[AnnRam]

Extremely small indie company, please look forward to it.

1 week with DDOS attack? uhmm. buy this emote for 15 usd and supports us.