Microsoft Mitigated One Of The Largest Ddos Attacks In 2021

Back in August 2021, Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service encountered one of the largest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks of all time. However, the Redmond giant was able to moderate the attack, thanks to its capabilities of handling and absorbing a massive amount of DDoS attacks. It was able to stay online throughout the attack that exceeded a peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps and lasted for over 10 minutes.

As per Amir Dahan, a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft’s Azure Networking team, “the attack traffic originated from approximately 70,000 sources and from multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and China, as well as from the United States.”

You can check out Microsoft’s in-depth blog post to know more about the attack, how Azure was able to absorb it all, and how to protect your workloads from DDoS attacks.