This is our system to protect against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The aim of these attacks is to compromise a number of servers, and force them to overload others. The targeted infrastructure is then overwhelmed with several thousands of connection requests per second, making it unavailable as a result. DDoS attacks are becoming more widely used by malicious parties, and OVHcloud is working hard to limit their impact. OVHcloud Anti-DDoS protection is not optional — it's included with all of our servers.