>>545897276
if you're talking specifically about DDoS, the defenses with cloud servers + Cloudflare would be so much better it's not even funny,
they used Google Cloud for Cloudtest, while the normal NA DCs use SE's physical servers hosted by NTT, which is garbage
games using cloud servers get affected by DDoS too, but the sheer scale necessary for the attacks to have any impact is magnitudes above what you'd need to bring XIV down like this
just as an example, this is from last September:
>Cloudflare just autonomously blocked hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks twice as large as anything seen on the Internet before — peaking at 22.2 Tbps & 10.6 Bpps
and that didn't fuck with any games, then in October, the attacks that affected AWS, PSN, Steam, and other services had to break that record (29.69 Tbps)