Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos

Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban

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#cloudflare have successfully mitigated 3.8 TBps #DDoS attack topping 2.14 billion pps.
That is… not small.

And fun thing: it cost no extra for the attacked customers, and free tier was protected as well in due course.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-auto-mitigated-world-record-3-8-tbps-ddos-attack/

How Cloudflare auto-mitigated a world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

Cloudflare’s DDoS defenses have automatically and successfully detected and mitigated a 3.8 terabit per second DDoS attack — the largest attack on record — as part of a month-long campaign of over a hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

^{The Cloudflare Blog}