AWS On Air ft. Automatic Application Layer DDoS
summary
Automatic Application Layer DDoS Mitigation analyzes web requests to build per-resource baselines, detects L7 volumetric anomalies, and automatically creates, tests, and deploys custom WAF rules without needing a human escalation. Demo shows it enabling on a CloudFront distribution (account had five protected distributions), requires an initial 24–25 hours baseline with a rolling 30-day profile, and offers block or count modes so teams can observe before enforcing. Console shows protection groups, event summaries and metrics; the feature is live as L7 auto mitigation.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and contest
- 1:37What is AWS Shield
- 4:06L7 auto mitigation launch
- 8:17Demo and configuration
- 10:44How to get started
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