By utilizing azure’s globally distributed ddos protection infrastructure and continuous detection capabilities, mitigation measures were initiated. Azure’s global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping services online. Microsoft's azure cloud has mitigated the largest ddos attack in history at close to 16 tbps from the aisuru botnet At its peak, the attack used over 500,000 connected devices to hit the azure. Azure has blocked its largest ddos attack to date, a 15.72 tbps strike linked to the aisuru iot botnet that also surged to nearly 3.64 billion packets per second and targeted a single cloud. Microsoft successfully detected and mitigated the largest cloud ddos attack ever, reaching 15.72 terabits per second
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