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why is google immune to an attack?

They're a much larger company with massive infrastructure that dwarfs Fastmail's? The traffic Fastmail is accustomed to dealing with is likely nowhere near the amount of the traffic that Google deals with.

Yep, Google has the edge and frontend resources to absorb very large attacks, and DoSSec-SRE prowling around and adjusting the defenses around the clock. One of the reasons that cloud computing feels like feudalism is if you don't have the protection of an Amazon or a Google, you're pretty much screwed. Are your systems able to survive a billion packet-per-second botnet attack?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ide...

Curious. Did the larger feudal lords attack the smaller ones in the old days?

The monarch's job was basically to prevent this.

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