US Patent 10951648 Techniques for protecting against excessive utilization of cloud services

A method, system and a platform for protecting against excessive utilization of at least one cloud service for operation of a cloud-hosted application. The method comprising receiving, at a defense platform deployed out-of-path of traffic between a plurality of end user devices and the cloud-hosted application, telemetries from a plurality of sources, wherein each source is configured to collect telemetries related to at least one of the at least one cloud service; detecting, based on the collected telemetries and a learned normal utilization behavior for the cloud-hosted application, excessive utilization of at least one of the at least one cloud service by the cloud-hosted application; and causing mitigation, at the defense platform, of the excessive utilization of each cloud service upon detection of the excessive utilization of the at least one cloud service by the cloud-hosted application.