400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks
Mar 3, 2016Marek Majkowski
Summary
This post details Cloudflare's advancements in automatically mitigating large-scale Layer 3 DDoS attacks, reporting peak traffic of over 400Gbps and 180Mpps. It highlights how their network capacity and automated systems allow them to absorb and accurately measure these attacks, improving their mitigation capabilities with each event and enabling them to withstand even larger future attacks.
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