Why attackers can't take down Amazon.com

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CNN Money:
Why attackers can’t take down Amazon.com
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – The website-attacking group “Anonymous” tried and failed to take down Amazon.com on Thursday. The group’s vengeance horde quickly found out something techies have known for years: Amazon, which has built one of the world’s most invincible websites, is almost impossible to crash.
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Until last week, WikiLeaks was one of Amazon’s website-hosting customers. Amazon gave WikiLeaks the boot in the wake of the site’s controversial release of a trove secret U.S. State Department documents.
That put Amazon in the crosshairs of Anonymous, a group that originated on image-board site 4chan.com, which organizes swarms to try to crash the websites of those it deems enemies. In the past, Anonymous has taken down several high-profile sites, including those of the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America.
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This week, Anonymous launched takedown campaigns against organizations that have shunned the site WikiLeaks. Under the banner “Operation Payback,” the Anonymous group successfully crashed Mastercard.com and strained the websites of Visa and PayPal. (Mastercard and Visa’s transaction networks – which run completely independently of their websites – were unaffected.)
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Maybe the Feds could hire some of Amazon’s experts to check into their security?
 
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