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Achraf Souk

Author: Achraf Souk

Achraf Souk is a Principal Solutions Architect based in France. His main speciality is helping companies to secure and accelerate their online applications using AWS Edge Services. Achraf is currently leading the worldwide edge tech community at AWS.

How to customize your response to layer 7 DDoS attacks using AWS WAF Anti-DDoS AMR

Over the first half of this year, AWS WAF introduced new application-layer protections to address the growing trend of short-lived, high-throughput Layer 7 (L7) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These protections are provided through the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS AWS Managed Rules (Anti-DDoS AMR) rule group. While the default configuration is effective for most workloads, […]