[capecodcarl]

Doesn't Google already have the infrastructure to deal with an attack of this magnitude? I remember recently reading about Krebs on Security moving to Google's Project Shield service: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-rescues-krebs-on-securit...

[nstj]

afaik Shield is for select journalists only, not for typical web infrastructure.

[jtl999]

https://support.google.com/projectshield/answer/6358116?hl=e...

> My website is on Blogger, Google Sites, or Google App Engine. Am I eligible?

    > As Google products, these sites already have similar DDoS protection to Project Shield. Your website would not need to be set up with Project Shield. 

Wonder if that answer includes Compute Engine. Doubt it.

[brazzledazzle]

It would be interesting to try using App Engine to simply proxy traffic. I don't know enough about it to even know if it's technically feasible. I imagine the downsides would be many but it could be useful as a temporary measure while you're getting attacked.

[yannovitch]

Some people already use App Engine as a free CDN (http://www.digitalistic.com/2008/06/09/10-easy-steps-to-use-...) , I imagine it would be totally possible to use it as a proxy.