High value (a decent number of high profile customers) and yet easier than say us (Google), AWS or Azure. As the last discussion brought up, I'm curious whether Linode is particularly singled out compared to say Digital Ocean, OVH, Hetzner, et al. but maybe someone like jgrahamc knows?
Easier in the sense they have less scale/capacity/capability to mitigate the attacks?
Yes for sure, think about what Google etc had as teams before they all launched their cloud compute services, I would bet they all had abuse mitigation teams. In this case I would figure there is an overlap of the team and tooling that keeps google.com up and the one that keeps my VM being hosed by a DDoS