Perhaps they drop the client's flows on the host side.

I don’t understand? The issue is that a client/customer outside of cloudflares control DOSed one of their network links. Cloudflare has no control on the client side to implement rate limiting?

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fusl 3 days ago | parent [-]

I think you misunderstand the flow of traffic here. The data flow, initiated by requests coming from AWS us-east-1, was Cloudflare towards AWS, not the other way around. Cloudflare can easily control where and how their egress traffic gets to the destination (as long as there are multiple paths towards the target) as well as rate limit that traffic to sane levels.

	▲	__turbobrew__ 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah I see now. Yes in that case they could just reply with 429 codes or just not reply at all.