Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
As far as I know there is only one company in the world that is known to be immune to DDOS attack ... and it is Amazon. First, because Amazon is in the business of selling server so they naturally they always have a large reserve capacity. Secondly, and probably more importantly, they did the math and see that they stand to lose hundred of millions for each minutes the website is down, or even billions if it's during holiday season. I think in the past Amazon came under concentrate attack for a straight 3 days, then the attackers gave up because Amazon's servers just shrug it off. I have never heard similar thing from any other tech companies. The joke is you can't DDOS Amazon, because the massive amount of business they process at any given moment means they're already ALWAYS DDOSed by their actual customers.

But in case if anyone wondering why there is no business incentive to preemptively stop DDOS attack ... just looks at amazon to see how big such incentive needs to be.
yeah, in this one instance I would agree with the thought that some have here that SE is a "small indie company" in comparison. Amazon = $514 billion annually and SE...$2.49 billion... Amazon makes it money doing many sales online and SE doesnt, not many companies need that kind of "protection" against these kind of attacks. 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?