HOW CLOUDFLARE MITIGATES THOUSANDS OF DDOS ATTACKS EVERY HOUR

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Cloudflare mitigates an average of 2,200 DDoS attacks per hour. It measures attack size using metrics like bits per second (BPS), requests per second (RPS), and packets per second (PPS), analyzing attack vectors, targets, and payload signatures to identify and fingerprint attacks. Cloudflare has multiple protection strategies, like rate limiting, caching, CDNs, reducing attack surface, continuous monitoring, and machine learning.