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by Hilift 292 days ago
> The incident was a result of a surge of traffic from a single customer that overloaded Cloudflare's links with AWS us-east-1. It was a network congestion event, not an attack or a BGP hijack.

And no one knew a single thing about it until the incident. That is the current network management state of the art, let Cloudflare deal.