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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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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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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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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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I have the following pattern/architecture to deploy a website with CDK:
- WAF with a custom IP-based ratelimit for a Cloudfront Distribution with Api Gateway as Origin.
- a default ratelimit at the A...
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asked 2 years ago
I wanted to have a hard configuration on the number of requests that the API gateway should serve and once we reach that, we should not even get costed for API gateway, how can this be implemented?
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asked 3 years ago
If we are attacked with DDoS, who covers the bill if resources get out of control?
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asked 3 years ago
Greetings,
So, it may turn out that the problem all along is caused by the very thing designed to prevent it.....
We run or are trying to run gaming servers on AWS due to the new regions offered H...
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asked 3 years ago
Hello,
We have a public API (many of them) and I am looking into how we can protect against large scale layer 7 DDoS type attacks, for example a HTTP GET. The proposed architecture that we have come u...
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Every day, multiple servers of my company receive automated network requests that are clearly trying to break into our system or expose vulnerability: Requests like
- GET /.env
- GET /boaform/admin/...
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asked 3 years ago
Hello
Is my Lightsail instance protected against DDOS by default using AWS Shield Standard ?
Or do I need to setup something for AWS Shield Standard to protect my Lightsail instance against DDOS ?
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5 days into this billing cycle, and my Route 53 zone has received over 33 million requests for a particular host that I recently deleted. And the associated DNS record was deleted too. I didn't thin...
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asked 3 years ago
My domain is parked at Google Domains. I use a Lightsail INSTANCE to host a Wordpress app, which is distributed through a Lightsail DISTRIBUTION using custom Name Servers. Using custom Name Servers ...
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