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MK Matt Kohn Cloud engineer and DevOps leader with deep Azure and AWS experience, including eight years at a multi-cloud consulting firm.

“Attackers have learned DevOps principles. They failed over. That's fantastic. They did what we all wish our companies were doing every day.”

The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · October 2026

“Attackers have learned DevOps principles. They failed over. That's fantastic. They did what we all wish our companies were doing every day.” — Matt Kohn, The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP

Context

A Cloudflare analysis showed that malicious bot traffic from Yandex networks simply moved to other Russian hosts after drone strikes hit Yandex data centers. Matt jokes that the operators had better high availability and disaster recovery than most businesses manage.

Transcript

The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP Around 25:55 into the episode
Matt Kohn

So what I'm hearing is they have properly configured their design for failure people running these bots and they have full HA and DR capabilities. And this is what every business should shy for. It just shows it's a business. If they're offline for minutes, it costs them X millions of dollars.

Ryan Lucas

Yeah.

Matt Kohn

It's kind of sad, but kind of true. Right? Like, yeah, they did. Attackers have learned DevOps principles. Right. That's like they failed over. That's fantastic. They did what we all wish our companies were doing every day.

Cody Chandler

I don't even think it's that complicated. I think they just changed their outbound routes. Probably. Like they just figured out how to use a different gateway. I mean, yes. Ruined like you, but then they moved the computer somewhere else and then just ran out of trap a flip it to rant.

Matt Kohn

Tell how many companies have you seen in your career that could not pull that off?

Cody Chandler

I mean, is all an answer?

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