Netlify: Load Balancer DDoS
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During a DDoS attack, customers using our Load Balancer IP directly as an A record in DNS suffered degraded website service. This degradation lasted several hours. A thorough learning review from the experience was posted here: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/08/23/august-22nd-ddos-learning-review/ (opens in new tab)
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Netlify, started 2016-08-22 15:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Load Balancer DDoS
- Vendor
- Netlify
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/netlify/incidents/5bw6m21wrz2x
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