I got a new cloud virtual machine and didn't login for 2 hours. When I did the logs showed there were about 50 attempts to login from random IP addresses. I c

I got a new cloud virtual machine and didn't login for 2 hours. When I did the logs showed there were about 50 attempts to login from random IP addresses. I changed my port to a random 4 digit number. Not a single failed login attempt in 6 months. Obviously follow good security practices too but I like not have to rotate and filter the logs with yet another tool.