The site appears to be hosted on servers that are part of U.S. firm Amazon.com s giant hosted Web Services infrastructure based in Seattle, Washington. The controversial site has spent months trying to find a home secure from government seizure. Wikileaks posted its collection of more than 250,000 sensitive government documents Sunday evening, dubbing the operation cablegate . Even before the release, however, the group was being targeted by DDoS attacks. The site was soon on the move again, in search of infrastructure that could support both the high level of legitimate traffic and efforts by unknown parties.
Source: https://threatpost.com/wikileaks-dodging-ddos-bounces-back-amazon-112910/74708/