eli5: What are distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks?

Question

I thought DDos was the same as doxxing someone, turns out I’m just stupid.

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Answer 1

I’m wanting to go the store known as Amazon.com. There is only one way to get there.

Some other guy decided that he is gonna send a billion people to the store. The store can’t handle this many people!

Now I’m stuck trying to get to the store cause there is too much traffic.

This is a DDoS. This guy has denied me service of the store Amazon

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