BitBucket.org which is a code hosting website service [for the Mercurial (software) that is used extensively by software developers] got hit by a massive DDoS attack.
BitBucket which is hosted on Amazon’s Cloud suffered major outage this past weekend. For a company that relies on the Amazon cloud for uptime, scalability and reliablity, this DDoS attack was tough. It took Amazon 16 hours before they even accepted/acknowledged the DDoS attack.
Read a detailed explanation offered by BitBucket on their blog.