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© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS Case Study: Mydress • Started in 2014, Hong Kong-based MyDress is an e-commerce site selling trendy items • MyDress has 400,000 customers and offers a wide variety of fashion items including shirts and skirts, pants, shorts, scarves, accessories, shoes, bags, and even lingerie, sourced from over 200 brands • A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the collocated data center in rendered MyDress inaccessible for four hours and led to business falling by 52 percent • This breach threatened MyDress' plans to grow at an average pace of 70 percent a year • Their ecommerce system wasn't secure or scalable