Amazon's Shield protection service says that it successfully defended against the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. According to a regular report from Amazon's AWS Shield division, which is specifically designed to safeguard Amazon cloud customers against DDoS attacks, the effort topped out at 2.3 terabits per second. The DDoS attack is the largest ever recorded and outpaces a previous record set in 2018 (stock)As reported by ZDNet, which first noticed the record-breaking attack, Amazon did not identify who the target was but said it took place in mid-February. The attack eclipses the former record for DDoS attacks which clocked in at 1.7 terabits per second. As noted by ZDNet, DDoS attacks, while still a threat, are increasingly rare due to improvements in security and cooperation between internet service providers and other players affected by the attacks.

Source: Daily Mail June 18, 2020 16:40 UTC