Re:AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection
by stevekemp on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:50PM
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> DNS... Not really sure what to make of this one.
You only have to think back a couple of weeks to recall the DDos that took down Dyn:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759697
DDos attacks DNS servers are pretty common, not least because a lot of hosting companies regard DNS as low priority.
I have an interest in Amazon's DNS setup, as I use it to provide my own git-based DNS hosting <https://dns-api.com> so I'll be curious to see how this works in practice myself.
> usage spikes on Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
If traffic has reached the load balancer than it's probably reached your app. No ec2 / storage / traffic credits here.
> Amazon CloudFront
Neat. Like cloudflare but with less features though.
> or Amazon Route 53
DNS... Not really sure what to make of this one.