The Register has a well-written article on the post-DDoS scenario and analysis of what happened at BitBucket. BitBucket as you may know was a customer on the Amazon EC2 Cloud and it got DDoS’d big time. This article clearly spells out that it was actually Amazon that was at fault, by exposing their internal storage network to the outside world to be DDoS.
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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.