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by onphonenow 1510 days ago
Umm.. AWS and GCP and friends dwarf these guys, but I zee Hetzner, OVH and DigitalOcean in these things.
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I bet a big factor is that AWS and GCP charge obscene markups for bandwidth. Much harder to get away with.
Of course, no one could afford a ddos from AWS or GCP. Even in the case of compromised machines, the huge traffic bill is going to alert everyone pretty quickly.