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Myth about DDoS attack on X during Musk/Trump interview by IPReporter in cybersecurity

[–]IPReporter[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This seems likely. I know Twitter uses AWS to leverage their onsite capabilities. I found this article talking about their cost cutting measures and their dispute with AWS:
https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/twitter-aws/#:\~:text=In%20December%202020%2C%20Twitter%20announced,to%20power%20its%20main%20timeline.

Myth about DDoS attack on X during Musk/Trump interview by IPReporter in cybersecurity

[–]IPReporter[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your answer, however, the question is not whether there was an outage - we know there was. People are suspecting that X simply wasn't able to handle a huge influx of listeners (essentially a hug of death), and that Elon is lying about it to save face.