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DDoS

An attacker flooded the edge with 50 times normal traffic.

What happens#

An attacker flooded the edge with 50 times normal traffic.

How to prevent it#

A WAF, with Under attack mode when it starts. A CDN takes the cacheable part.

The postmortem opens the first of these that you do not own yet:

  1. Web application firewall
  2. Content delivery

Engineering terms#