AWS WAF announces general availability of Resource-level DDoS protection for Application Load Balancers (ALB)
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AWS WAF has announced general availability of resource-level DDoS protection for Application Load Balancers (ALBs), offering enhanced security against distributed denial of service attacks.
- Integrated directly with ALB as an on-host agent
- Detects and mitigates DDoS attacks within seconds
- Built on existing IP reputation rule groups
- Can rate limit traffic based on client IP and proxy network addresses
- Configurable to be active continuously or during high load conditions
- Available in all supported AWS Regions
This new feature provides rapid protection against known attack sources while maintaining service quality for legitimate traffic.
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