DDoS Mitigation
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
DDoS Mitigation protects your site from being overwhelmed by millions of fake requests. Attackers flood your servers until they crash — DDoS mitigation absorbs and filters that traffic. Services like Cloudflare and AWS Shield have massive networks that eat attacks for breakfast.
Real Talk
DDoS mitigation uses traffic analysis, rate limiting, IP reputation, geographic filtering, and scrubbing centers to filter malicious traffic during volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks. CDN-based solutions absorb attacks across global edge networks.
When You'll Hear This
"Cloudflare mitigated a 2Tbps DDoS attack without us even noticing." / "AWS Shield Advanced provides DDoS protection with cost protection — you don't pay for attack traffic."
Related Terms
Bot Detection
Bot Detection figures out if a visitor is a human or a robot. Good bots (Googlebot) are welcome. Bad bots (scrapers, credential stuffers) get blocked.
CDN (Content Delivery Network)
A CDN is a network of servers spread around the world that store copies of your files.
Rate Limiting Security
Rate Limiting prevents abuse by capping how many requests someone can make. 100 login attempts per minute? Blocked. 1000 API calls per second? Throttled.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
A WAF is a smart firewall that understands web traffic.