+1. Most server deployments will break at less less than 10k RPS. If we talk about the largest scale public cloud deployments, we might end up in the millions to billions of RPS due lots of lots of instances. But the number will be very far off from the 24293141000000000000 rps rate that the author used for estimating the impact.
Plus any deployment that is so large that a user could actually generate a reasonable amount of traffic will likely also have some variant of a DDOS/fraud/rate-limiting protection or at least alarms and manual interventions that will kick in once such a traffic flood is observed.
Plus any deployment that is so large that a user could actually generate a reasonable amount of traffic will likely also have some variant of a DDOS/fraud/rate-limiting protection or at least alarms and manual interventions that will kick in once such a traffic flood is observed.