[beachstartup]

last night the consensus was 1.2 tbps.

[bklyn11201]

For a DNS-only service provider, it seems like 1.2Tbps could be 1000x normal traffic. But Akamai claims 30Tbps+ is their routine traffic[1]. Some have commented that this DDOS questions consolidation around cloud providers, but I think it will cause consolidation among service providers. You can no longer be a critical service provider if you don't have the capacity to absorb attacks like this.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3123797/security/some-thoug...

[zzzcpan]

I suppose Akamai wasn't ready to deal with the attack that size. They only recently bought Prolexic, but things move slowly on their scale.

[45h34jh53k4j]

or 2x krebs, the 2nd? previously largest in history; we could use that or this incident as the future benchmark of ddos capacity. Attacker may have been involved with the 1.5Tb against OVH.

[quantumhobbit]

Is Brian Krebs going to become a unit of measurement for ddos attacks? Because that would be awesome.

Ex. "I can't believe our network can't handle that traffic, it is only 20 milliKrebs!"