DDoS attack
We had a DDoS attack on the 18th, and I had hopped CloudFlare would have mitigated it more - but it ended up overwhelming our Firewall and took down our whole Cloud.
Thoughts on how to prevent this? Please see attached
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"shouldn't be used as a main source of migration"
wow, this landing page seems to sugguest otherwise
https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/ppc/ddos-y/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ao-fy-acq-namer_en_na-umbrella-ge-ge-prospecting-sch_g_brand_alpha&utm_content=Alpha_Brand_Networks_DDoS&utm_term=cloudflare+ddos&campaignid=71700000110566648&adgroupid=58700008395369374&creativeid=669302700635&&_bt=669302700635&_bk=cloudflare%20ddos&_bm=p&_bn=g&_bg=152212902867&_placement=&_target=&_loc=9022858&_dv=c&awsearchcpc=1&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwo8S3BhDeARIsAFRmkOMRvn8q_mKoqr0FmHy4aV78bPnaLxl7jqDt5073REal-8nrlwCFt_IaAhNIEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
and here
https://developers.cloudflare.com/ddos-protection/
Cloudflare automatically detects and mitigates distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
Cloudflare Docs
Overview | Cloudflare DDoS Protection docs
Cloudflare automatically detects and mitigates distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks via our autonomous DDoS systems.
this was a simple chocolate factory that got relatively little traffic, and then got 13 Million requests in 24 hours - most with in under 6 hours
The automated system didn't find that strange?