On October 24, the Windows giant''s cloud DDoS protection service auto-detected and mitigated the traffic tsunami - nearly 3.64 billion packets per second - so no customer workloads experienced any service interruptions, Microsoft''s Sean Whalen said in a Monday blog.
More than 500,000 source IPs from various regions flooded a single endpoint with User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets during the DDoS event, he added.
"This was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud and it targeted a single endpoint in Australia," Whalen wrote, noting that the Aisuru botnet was behind the network flood.
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