Thundering herd is different. Thundering herd is when a lot of clients trigger requests at the same time. Common situations being a specific time, some other ev

Thundering herd is different. Thundering herd is when a lot of clients trigger requests at the same time. Common situations being a specific time, some other event just occurred or synchronize on other parts of your infrastructure (such as readers queuing behind a R/W lock that then get unblocked at the same time to continue to make a bunch of requests at the same time. Request amplification via retries is a different problem that causes large amounts of traffic (but it is generally more steady than spiky)