Record: DDoS attack blocked with 46 million hits
Google also offers the Cloud Armor service in its cloud services. This is intended to protect customers from DDoS attacks. In June, the network repelled the largest ever DDoS attack (layer 7) with 46 million requests per second. In recent years, Google has observed that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasing exponentially in frequency and size. Today's internet-facing workloads are at constant risk of attack. The impact degrades the performance of legitimate users. In addition, there are increased operating and hosting costs up to the complete unavailability of business-critical workloads. 46 million hits PER second! At the…