Microsoft is excited to announce the general availability of the Azure DDoS Protection Standard service in all public cloud regions. This service is integrated with Azure Virtual Networks and provides protection and defense for Azure resources against the impacts of DDoS attacks.
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.
These concerns are justified, as the number of documented DDoS amplification attacks increased by more than 357 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017, compared to 2016. Further, more than 56 percent of all attacks exploit multiple vector combinations. In February 2018, GitHub was attacked via a reflection exploit in Memcached, generating 1.35 terabits of attack traffic, the largest DDoS attack ever recorded.
As the types and sophistication of network attacks increases, Azure is committed to providing customers with solutions that continue to protect the security and availability of applications on Azure. Security and availability in the cloud is a shared responsibility. Azure provides platform-level capabilities and designs best practices for customers to adopt and apply into application designs that meet their business objectives.
2018-04-23