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I don't think AWS mitigates DDOS. If an app is under DDOS at AWS and was using an Elastic Load Balancer, the app would have to pay for the inbound bandwidth through the ELB and would have to pay for scale-up to respond to the increased traffic load.

It'd be much more cost effective to pay CloudFlare a fixed monthly fee and stop the DDOS attack before it even gets to your AWS resources.

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Last time I looked at the AWS jobs site, they were hiring for a DDoS mitigation team.

having a slight understanding but no direct knowledge of their network infrastructure, that's probably for financial not technical reasons (they can handle the largest volumetric attacks and then some)

The more I read from CF, the more I'm impressed and am definitely considering this.

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