In June this year, Cloudflare confirmed that there was the largest HTTPS distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in history, but it successfully blocked the record-breaking attack before any real damage occurred. . The company revealed that it recorded DDoS attacks of 26 million requests per second.
Google just reported that they discovered a massive DDOS total that attempted to shut down its Cloud Armor customer service, peaking at 46 million requests per second, or 176.92% of the previous record. This makes it the largest seven-layer DDoS attack ever reported.
At peak times, this attack was equivalent to a full day of Wikipedia traffic in 10 seconds, so being able to defend against such a powerful DDoS attack is an incredible feat, Google explained. According to reports, Google Cloud Armor regularly protects applications (Layer 7) and websites from such internet attacks by using load balancing technology, keeping web services running even in the face of these challenges.
Google Cloud Armor claims to support more than 1 million query requests per second, but this time they successfully handled 46 million times per second of the load. Google reports that Cloud Armor successfully detected the DDoS attack and recommended a rule to customers to block the attack, which worked well.
A few minutes later, after the attacker realized the attack had failed, data requests dropped. However, Google points out that the number of DDoS attacks has grown exponentially and is being delivered by a large number of malicious bots, so this record may not hold for long.