---
title: "How Cloudflare Mitigates Thousands of DDoS Attacks Every Hour"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-cloudflare-mitigates-thousands-of-ddos-attacks-every-hour-05usbwjgw
source_url: https://blog.quastor.org/p/how-cloudflare-mitigates-thousands-of-ddos-attacks-every-hour-25e0
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2025-01-06T15:16:31.382Z
updated: 2025-01-06T15:16:55.873Z
tags: ["security", "webdev", "cyber", "devops", "cloudflare"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How Cloudflare Mitigates Thousands of DDoS Attacks Every Hour

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Cloudflare mitigates an average of 2,200 DDoS attacks per hour, protecting websites from severe disruptions. They counter various types of DDoS attacks, including volumetric, application layer, and protocol attacks. Strategies for protection include rate limiting, caching and CDNs, reducing the attack surface, and continuous monitoring. Cloudflare uses detailed metrics and analysis techniques to measure and identify DDoS attacks effectively.

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