Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack

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This post details Cloudflare's mitigation of a record-breaking 71 million requests per second (rps) HTTP/2-based DDoS attack. It highlights the scale of the attack, its origin from over 30,000 IP addresses, and the types of targeted websites. The post also announces a free Botnet threat feed for service providers and provides recommendations for customers to optimize their DDoS protection, including enabling managed rulesets, adaptive DDoS protection, firewall and rate limiting rules, securing origin servers, leveraging managed IP lists and bot scores, enabling caching, and utilizing DDoS alerting.