DDOS

Distributed Denial-of-Service

What’s a DDOS Attack?

DDOS Protection on AWS

  • AWS Shield Standard: protects against DDOS attack for your website and applications, for all customers at no additional costs

  • AWS Shield Advanced: 24/7 premium DDoS protection

  • AWS WAF: Filter specific requests based on rules

  • CloudFront and Route 53: • Availability protection using global edge network • Combined with AWS Shield, provides attack mitigation at the edge

  • Be ready to scale – leverage AWS Auto Scaling

Sample Reference Architecture for DDoS Protection

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