A solar eclipse influences Internet traffic, reverse traceroute, xzutils backdoor, page load times, http/2 attacks using continuation frames, Gigabit Ethernet links going down
Last week, a solar eclipse was visible in North America. Amazon engineers looked at some of the traffic data they collect to see whether their Internet traffic was affected by the solar eclipse. They expected an indirect effect as humans were looking at the eclipse instead of using the Internet. They observed a visible effect by looking at the traffic decrease per groups of post codes every ten times. In case of doubt, this is another illustration of the massive amount of data that Amazon collects and uses…