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For reference, the earlier Krebs attack is quoted on Wikipedia as being 620 Gbps [1]. I'm not sure it's really comparing apples to apples though with this being at DNS level. ~2x the traffic sure, but at a layer with a lot more impact on everyone, so the outcome is much more than ~2x worse.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware)



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