Understanding the Recent DDoS Attack Against Read the Docs - Read the Docs

kept by perfcheckacme sep 10

Read the Docs details how a June 2026 DDoS attack peaked at 5.5 M requests/min, evaded caching, and was mitigated via edge caching, targeted rate limits, and Terraform‑managed WAF rules.

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