Microsoft’s Azure services recently faced a significant outage due to a DDoS attack, worsened by a misconfiguration in their DDoS protection setup. This incident underscores the critical importance of robust and accurately configured defenses against such attacks to prevent substantial service disruptions. The attack aimed to flood Azure’s network with malicious traffic from compromised machines.

This type of assault, known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, is designed to overwhelm network resources, making services unavailable to legitimate users. In this case, Microsoft’s DDoS defenses did activate, but a configuration error caused them to amplify the attack’s impact rather than mitigate it. As a result, extensive service outages occurred, impacting key services on a global scale.

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SOURCE ConnectWise