Amazon.com's Success in Wikileaks Attack is Proof of Cloud Safety for Businesses

"Operation Payback" wanted to take Amazon.com AMZN down probably more than any other site attacked the week of Dec.6. The organizers wanted Amazon to pay for dropping Wikileaks from its hosting. Hackers attacked for one full hour. But Amazon didn't budge; no slow downs, no outages, no nothing. This should be an eye-opener for businesses. Amazon's ability to stay up and running while under direct attack shows that cloud hosting might just be the best place to withstand distributed denial of service attacks. There are two reasons why Amazon.com, as a large cloud hosting service, did not succumb to the hacker attacks: Continue reading the article.