New York: Cloud Computing giants including Google Cloud, Cloudflare, and AWS have come under frequent attacks by the Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS, which can cause visible damage to these platforms.
In Aug 2023, Google Cloud was hit by the largest DDoS attack in history, soaring the digital onslaught level to 398 million users per second (RPS). This was considered as 7 ½ times larger than any previously recorded DDoS attacks, despite employing the novel “Rapid Reset” technology.
The search engine giant Google confirmed that it was a matter of 2 minutes, and the Google Cloud was impacted by more RPS than Wikipedia witnessed throughout September in 2023.
Apart from Google Cloud, Cloudflare, a leading cloud delivery network (CDN), and Amazon Web Services (AWS), were also exposed to the DDoS attacks. On one hand, Cloudflare held strong against a 2 million RPS attack, on the other hand, AWS repelled against a 155 million RPS assault.
The DDoS attacks began in the month of August, and they are continuing till this day, targeting all the major infrastructure providers, according to Google. To combat the situation, the companies have initiated a cross-industry response, wherein all of them will be sharing their mitigation strategies with various cloud providers.
This is a collaborative effort that has developed patches and various mitigation-based solutions that have been adopted by the majority of the large infrastructure providers.
The “Rapid Reset” technique uses a feature in the latest HTTP/2 protocol, which allows multiple connections to share one session. This attack creates multiple connections within a single HTTP session, making defending against and evolving Layer 7 attacks harder.
Most of the companies don’t have the required resources that are needed to deal with such level cyberattacks. You must invest in comprehensive DDoS defensive services like Amazon CloudFront, AWS Shield, and Google Cloud Armor, which will help you deal with high-level cyberattacks.