“Tens of thousands of requests per second for our public domain OCR files were launched from 64 virtual hosts on amazon’s AWS services.”
Someone pointed 64 AWS machines at the Internet Archive’s OCR text and knocked the whole site offline for an hour. Blocked, they came back with 64 new addresses and took it down again. A nonprofit library paid for the outage with engineers scrambling on a holiday Sunday. The people renting 128 cloud servers to hammer a library never ask first.