Parler's antitrust claim
After AWS took Parler offline, it did a very curious thing. Despite shutting down all of its services to Parler,
AWS left open Route 53, “a highly scalable domain name system (DNS) . . . , which conveniently directed hackers to our backup datacenters and caused them to initiate a sizeable DNS attack.” Matze Dec., ¶ 14. In other words, AWS essentially illuminated a large neon arrow directing hackers to Parler’s backup datacenters. And the hackers got the message, launching an extremely large attack—one 250 times larger and 12-24 times longer than the average DDOS attack.2 Later AWS would terminate the Route 53 link, but the damage was done. And this AWS-facilitated attack “essentially became a threat to all future datacenters that, if they were to host Parler, they would be attacked by unprecedented hacks.” Matze Dec., ¶ 14. In short, AWS’s highly publicized break from [its] contractual relationship [with Parler], when coupled with the toxic notoriety of massive hacking attacks, has driven away nearly all . . . other hosting services that Parler had hoped to use.” Matze Dec., ¶ 15.
--Document 31a, Supplemental filing after TRO hearing.
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