A company's website suddenly crashed. A cloud engineer investigates the following logs: Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

The correct answer is D. DDoS. The logs show a high volume of GET requests to the endpoint within a very short time frame (one request per second or even multiple per second). This pattern is consistent with a DDoS attack, where an excessive number of requests are made to overload the server, causing it to…

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Question

A company’s website suddenly crashed. A cloud engineer investigates the following logs:

Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

Exhibit

Options

ASQL injection
BCross-site scripting
CLeaked credentials
DDDoS

How the community answered

(16 responses)

A
6% (1)
B
6% (1)
C
13% (2)
D
75% (12)

Explanation

The logs show a high volume of GET requests to the endpoint within a very short time frame (one request per second or even multiple per second). This pattern is consistent with a DDoS attack, where an excessive number of requests are made to overload the server, causing it to crash or return errors (as seen with the 502 status codes).

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#DDoS attack#Website availability#Troubleshooting cloud services#Security incident response

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