Google Cloud blocked the biggest DDoS attack ever

Google has revealed that Google Cloud blocked the biggest DDoS attack of all time. The attack was blocked on June 1 and recorded 46 million requests per second.

According to Google, this is 76% higher than the previously reported record, you can see more details below.

Over the past few years, Google has observed that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in frequency and size exponentially. Today's Internet workloads are at constant risk of attack with impacts ranging from degraded performance and user experience for legitimate users, to increased operational and IT costs. hosting, to complete unavailability of critical workloads. Google Cloud customers can use Cloud Armor to leverage the global scale and capacity of Google's network edge to protect their environment against some of the largest DDoS attacks ever seen.

On June 1, a Google Cloud Armor customer was the target of a series of HTTPS DDoS attacks that peaked at 46 million requests per second. This is the largest Layer 7 DDoS reported to date, at least 76% larger than the previously reported record. To give an idea of ​​the magnitude of the attack, this is equivalent to receiving all daily queries to Wikipedia (one of the top 10 most visited websites in the world) in just 10 seconds.

You can find more information on the Google Cloud website by clicking the link below.

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