🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-23
One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye. Specifically, the claim of ~5.6 Tbps of traffic during the peak of one DDoS attack.
In 2024, Cloudflare's autonomous DDoS defense systems blocked ~21.3M DDoS attacks, up 53% YoY, and 420+ DDoS attacks in Q4 2024 exceeded 1Tbps, up 1,885% QoQ
From The Cloudflare Blog. View the full context on Techmeme.
For perspective, in 2013 there was one DDoS attack that “almost broke the Internet” which was claimed to be ~0.085 Tbps of traffic.
The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
This story, by Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog, appeared on Techmeme.
My point is, the comparisons are quite a bit different. The mitigation techniques and expansion of the Cloudflare business has likely changed.
Also likely is those differences have turned into a different kind of data claim for marketing purposes. So, I do wonder if the claims will one day relate to the theoretical throughput of a modern multi-Tbps Ethernet switch slot or a collection of switches at fully populated slot capacity.
