DDoS protection

Distributed denial-of-service attacks flood a system with traffic from many machines. Volumetric floods are absorbed by a provider's global network; application-layer floods are filtered by rate limits, WAF rules and bot detection.

Where it shows up in real systems

  • DDoS protection

    Floods of millions of packets per second are dropped by a provider's global network. The advanced tiers cost a fixed monthly fee but include attack response teams and cost protection for the scaling an attack triggers.

    In production: AWS Shield Advanced, Cloudflare DDoS protection, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor

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