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Questions tagged with DDOS Protection
Protection and mitigation techniques using managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service, Web Access Firewall (WAF), and Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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Hi all,
We are currently experiencing a situation where a single external IP address is continuously sending a very high volume of requests (tens of thousands per minute) to our application behind Am...
I have a web applications in AWS and I am considering enabling Cloudfront, WAF and R53. Before I was using multivendor DNS with hidden primary as best practice. Does it still make sense when using R53...
asked a year ago
I am trying to set up the anti-ddos managed rule in AWS WAF following the blog https://aws.amazon.com/cn/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-the-aws-waf-application-layer-ddos-protection...
Hi everyone,
I'm running a Django application in an AWS Lightsail container service, exposed via a custom domain managed by Cloudflare DNS, which proxies requests to the Lightsail Container public en...
I have an internet-facing Network Load Balancer (NLB) currently provisioned without Elastic IP addresses. I want to enable AWS Shield Advanced for enhanced DDoS protection. However, I want to achieve ...
Has anyone else noticed frequent spikes in traffic with their lightsail instance at regular intervals (daily at 2am)? Is this due to auto updates or is something more nefarious going on? My instance k...
I’m evaluating AWS Shield services, specifically AWS Shield Advanced, to protect our web application from DDoS attacks. While I understand it offers protection against Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks, I’m...
Hello,
in recent DDoS attack the customer noticed there were several million of the GET requests asking for the same URI. Does it make sense and how to create a WAF rule that will do a rate limit if t...
asked 2 years ago
On the 3rd of August 2024 at 16:35 UTC our server 51.112.143.93 was blocked, as a result of which it became impossible to access it via ssh. We would like to clarify the situation, what specific reque...
Hi, currently under a DDoS attack going on for more than 2 hours. We are unsure whether taking the $3000 Shield advanced service instantly help us combat this attack. Since we need to commit for a yea...
Hi all,
I would like to hear your approaches when applying a rate-based rule via AWS WAF.
What are the best ways to permanently block IP addresses that trigger the RBR? I would also like to send no...
Does the traffic blocked by the security group still take into EC2 network bandwidth accounting? If the blocked traffic is huge, will the EC2 still become "denial of service" because its inbound netwo...