A significant milestone occurred with the reported largest DDoS attack on Amazon Web Services (AWS) reaching 2.3 terabits per second. This is a substantial increase of 70% from the previous record holder, the Memcached-based GitHub DDoS attack in 2018, which measured 1.35 terabits per second.

Over the years, these attention-grabbing performance gains in DDoS attacks have been rising consistently, with major high-profile attacks happening every two years.

The AWS attack used a Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol DDoS reflection attack. Combined with amplification attacks, they are techniques expected for high-volume denial of service attacks.

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