> Scaling buys you time to analyze the DDoS attack and respond with countermeasu...

		grhmc on July 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency [pdf] > Scaling buys you time to analyze the DDoS attack and respond with countermeasures. They're not saying "scale up and just pay for it", they're saying use autoscaling as a tool to give you time to respond, Without first going down.