Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade

Cloudflare analyzes a decade of DDoS trends, concluding attack sizes have grown exponentially across requests, packets, and bits per second, with recent peaks of 201 Mrps, 2.1 Gpps, and 5.6 Tbps. The report explains why attack duration is a poor aggressiveness metric, highlights a shift from IoT-based botnets to more powerful VM-based botnets, and outlines Cloudflare’s automated, anycast-driven, layered defenses and unmetered mitigation approach.