This past October, Google Cloud disclosed that it had successfully mitigated the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history – and that this DDoS attack had been hitting businesses since August.

What made it the worst DDoS to date? It was the volume. At its peak, the attack counted over 398 million requests per second (rps). To compare, the worst recorded DDoS attack up to that point, detected in 2022, reached 46 million rps.

The fall 2023 attack,...