[bluedonuts]

I wonder what 1.2Tb would do if pointed at a ELB or an AZ in AWS. Someone must have tried at some point but i've never heard of any widespread outages caused by DDOS on AWS. Is it just that bandwidth available to an AWS datacenter is that much bigger than what dyn have?

[bklyn11201]

It's safe to assume that 1.2Tbps isn't a big deal for Google/MSFT/AWS/Cloudflare/Akamai/Yahoo/Verizon/etc.

DNS is normally a low-bandwidth protocol so if you only provide DNS services, needing to purchase 1000x your normal bandwidth to handle these bursts would be miserable. If a DNS provider were also providing video services (Vimeo/Twitch/etc), then a 1.2Tbps increase in traffic could be easily absorbed.

[rasz_pl]

You would think that, yet Akamai dropped Krebs over half that.