Case Study: BookMyShow mitigates massive DDoS attacks and boosts performance with Cloudflare

How BookMyShow Uses Cloudflare To Mitigate Massive DDoS Attacks

BookMyShow, India’s largest ticketing platform with more than 60 million registered users and roughly 5 billion monthly pageviews, faced growing security challenges as it scaled — including massive DDoS traffic bursts of up to 50 Gbps that threatened downtime and customer experience.

By adopting Cloudflare as its first line of defense, BookMyShow automatically mitigated attacks in under a minute and dramatically reduced operational overhead. The platform also enabled performance and agility improvements — HTTP/2, Cloudflare Workers to run business logic at the edge, API-driven automation, and load balancing across hybrid/multi‑cloud backends — resulting in stronger security, higher reliability, and better operational efficiency.

BookMyShow

Viraj Patel

VP of Technology