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Author: Eitav Arditti
Eitav Arditti is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He advises customers and the tech community about building resilient, scalable, adoptable, cost-effective, and simple cloud and software solutions. Focusing on architecture, Serverless, Containers and Edge services. Before joining AWS, Eitav led different R&D departments across multiple AdTech companies.
AWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepare
July 29, 2026: We’ve updated this post to clarify the AWS Firewall Manager migration path. Application-layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are difficult to detect because they closely resemble legitimate traffic. HTTP request floods are now among the most common vectors targeting web applications, using valid-looking requests that blend in with normal user activity. […]
Do more with AWS WAF labels using dynamic label interpolation
AWS WAF classifies web traffic by attaching metadata to each request it evaluates. Managed rule groups such as AWS WAF Bot Control and AWS WAF Fraud Control account takeover prevention (ATP) attach labels that describe what they found. A label can record that a request came from a known bot category or that it matched […]