Amazon.com’s famed EC2 infrastructure was more than a match for WikiLeaks allies who tried to take down the site Thursday. Amazon maintains vast reservoirs of excess server capacity so it can handle traffic spikes during key times like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. WikiLeaks allies have been planning to attack Amazon ever since it booted Julian Assange’s rogue Web site from its servers earlier this month. MasterCard, which is refusing to process credit card donations to WikiLeaks, was knocked off line Wednesday by a DDOS attack.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/amazon-cloud-withstands-wikileaks-attack