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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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 ...
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asked 13 days ago
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...
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asked 22 days ago
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...
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asked 4 months ago
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...
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asked 5 months 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...
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asked 8 months ago
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...
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asked 8 months ago
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...
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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...
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asked 10 months ago
There could be several circumstances to discuss: Q1. EC2 A in VPC1 & EC2 B in VPC2 (no matter from the same account or not): If EC2 A is under a DDoS attack that fills up all the network bandwidth t...
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Currently we are facing a DDoS attack on our application every 3-4 days. We have configured a WAF rate limiting rule that seems to work correctly against our load testing tool but doesnt seem to block...
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asked a year ago
If a user registers via email, but this user gives up the registration halfway through. In the user table of Cognito, the Confirmation status remains "Unconfirm". At the end of the month, Cognito will...
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asked a year ago
How to prevent fake user signups with Cognito? If some malicious actor sends fake user singup requests to the UserPool endpoint, the free tier of Cognito will be soon exhaust. If they continue to crea...
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