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The biggest DDoS attack in history?

Microsoft has released some stats on how they’re mitigating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. They not only describe how they protected Azure services, but also how many attacks there were.

We all know that Internet services experience attacks frequently, and the bigger the service, the bigger the target.

In August 2021, there were on average 1955 attacks per day, that Azure prevented or mitigated — with the highest being 4,296 on August 10.

Since then, three larger attacks have been mitigated in Azure, the biggest being in November and measuring 3.47 Tbps on the DDoS-o-meter.