Security News > 2021 > October > Microsoft says Azure fended off what might just be the world's biggest-ever DDoS attack
Microsoft claims its Azure cloud has fended off the largest DDOS attack it's detected, which clocked in at 2.4Tbit/sec.
Azure's mighty DDoS-reflection powers saw off the attack, so whoever was behind it didn't deny service for the "Azure customer in Europe" that Microsoft says was the target of the attack.
Microsoft's post does claim the attack is the largest it has seen.
In May 2020 AWS claimed it fended off a 2.3Tbit/sec attack, although Akamai claimed the attack it fended off in June of the same year involved more packets - 809 million per second of the blighters at the peak of the attack.
Cloudflare has staked its own claim to the crown, after recording 17.2 million requests per second in an August 2021 attack.
Microsoft hasn't shared any insights into the source of the attack, nor the attackers' motivations other than disrupting service.
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