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Architecting for DDoS Resilience

Design with edge services so floods are absorbed early.

Design Beats Reaction

The strongest DDoS defense is resilient architecture, not last-minute reaction. By fronting workloads with global edge services, minimizing exposed surface, and scaling elastically, you let AWS absorb floods before they reach your origin. Shield and WAF then handle the remainder.

Front with CloudFront

CloudFront serves content from hundreds of edge locations with vast aggregate capacity, diluting volumetric floods across the network. Putting CloudFront in front of your application means attack traffic hits the resilient edge first, and Shield Standard protects it automatically.

All lessons in this course

  1. Understanding DDoS Attacks on AWS
  2. Shield Standard versus Shield Advanced
  3. The DDoS Response Team and Cost Protection
  4. Architecting for DDoS Resilience
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