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		stepstop on June 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack > The previous record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded was of 1.7 Tbps, recorded in March 2018. The article says this ^. 1tbps in 2012 might have been a record but it’s been nearly a decade

jsnell on June 18, 2020 [–]

I think that was the point. It seems quite implausible that in 8 years the size of the maximum attack would only increase by a factor of 2.

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