Amazon Blog – 10.11.23 (10.20.23)
At the end of August, AWS security teams noticed a new type of HTTP request flood targeting customers. Request floods are a type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack—deliberately designed to make a website or application unavailable to users. These kinds of attacks have unfortunately become a common problem for cybersecurity teams to fend off. But this one was different, and of a size and scale not seen before.
Source: 3 ways AWS is helping to make the internet more secure