Infamous anti-jihadi hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r), who earlier this week claimed responsibility for a denial of service attack that temporarily disabled the WikiLeaks website, reported that he was the subject of a search and equipment seizure by law enforcement...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9916-Hacker-The-Jester-Reports-Raid-By-Law-Enforcement.html

Hey John, have you even used EC2? Do you know how the AWS firewall works? Why don't you take 15 minutes and read the security doc on the AWS site before posting about your "experience". http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf The EC2 firewall will black hole DDoS attacks.

In my experience, Amazon-hosted sites are no less vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks as those hosted more traditionally. Does anyone have different experience?