Data center redundancy in a network

A telecommunications network comprising:

• a plurality of data centers interconnected with a telecommunications network, each of the plurality of data centers comprising a plurality of computing devices, wherein at least one computing device of a first data center of the plurality of data centers hosts an application available to at least one user of the telecommunications network;
• a plurality of bunker data centers interconnected with the telecommunications network, each of the plurality of bunker data centers comprising a plurality of computing devices;
• and
• a network component configured to:
• detect a denial of service attack on the application hosted by the at least one computing device of the first data center;
• initiate the application on at least one computing device of a first bunker data center of the plurality of bunker data centers;
• obtain an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the application under the denial of service attack from one or more data packets intended for the application, the one or more data packets intended for the application comprising the IP address;
• announce the IP address associated with the application from the first bunker data center of the plurality of bunker data centers;
• and
• route one or more data packets associated with the denial of service attack to the application executed on the at least one computing device of the first bunker data center of the plurality of bunker data centers.

A system for operating a telecommunications network, the system comprising:

• a network component comprising:
• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable medium associated with the processor and including instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor to:
• detect a denial of service attack on an application hosted by at least one computing device of a first data center of a plurality of data centers, each of the plurality of data centers in communication with the telecommunications network;
• initiate the application on at least one computing device of a first bunker data center of a plurality of bunker data centers interconnected with the telecommunications network;
• announce an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the application from the first bunker data center of the plurality of bunker data centers;
• and
• route one or more data packets associated with the denial of service attack to the application executed on the at least one computing device of the first bunker data center of the plurality of bunker data centers.