[imaginenore]

How would that solve anything? He would have to pay crazy Google CDN fees now:

https://cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing

At 650 Gbps (81.25 GB/s) he's looking at $1.625/sec ($5850/hr) in cache egress fees alone.

I would go CloudFlare, which is flat rate.

[phihag_]

He's not using Google CDN, but Google Project Shield: https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/public/ . Project Shield is a free service.

[boulos]

You're assuming that the flood is actually responded to, instead of being blocked. Also, in defense of our Cloud CDN fees, they're not crazy ;).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, so I'm after your money (but not via having you pay for egress to DDoSers).

[prawn]

Comments elsewhere here suggest that this service is involved:

https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/public/

"Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web."