Security firm Cloudflare has detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than any previous one ever reported.
Omer Yoachimik, Product Manager, Cloudflare’s DDoS Protection Service, reported in a blog.
Earlier this summer, Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than any previous one known to Cloudflare.
For perspective on how large this attack was: Cloudflare serves over 25 million HTTP requests per second on average. This refers to the average rate of legitimate traffic in 2021 Q2. So peaking at 17.2 million rps, this attack reached 68% of our Q2 average rps rate of legitimate HTTP traffic.
Read all the details about the recent DDoS attack in Cloudfare’s blog.