In late 2025, Cloudflare quietly made history—not for something it built, but for something it stopped. The company revealed that it had detected and mitigated the largest recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date, peaking at an astonishing 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps). To put that into perspective, this single attack was powerful enough to overwhelm the entire bandwidth capacity of many countries.

