Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection(projectshield.withgoogle.com)
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Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection
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The name was already taken, guys.: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
Google project shield was released first. It was announced in early/mid 2016, whereas AWS shield was released in December.
This is what protected Brian Krebs pro bono after traffic grew too big for Akamai.
Great talk about it at Enigma earlier this year: https://youtu.be/ifp8l2yx7JA
Great talk about it at Enigma earlier this year: https://youtu.be/ifp8l2yx7JA
FWIW it too seemed to be down while Mirai was hitting it, the attacks just mostly stopped after the whole Akamai thing.
Are they also beta testing a Cloudflare like service? Or is this more likely to stay in this one niche?
Targeted at news sites specifically.
Right. The question is whether that is a permanent limitation, or if they might open it up more broadly in the future. The diagrams in the write up show that it's a global caching proxy, so not very different from Cloudflare.
Seems like an expansion of the profiling like service disguised as what you said.