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