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Security & Compliance
Jul 6, 2026palaniappan p4 min
AWS Shield Advanced (2026): DDoS Response, Cost Protection, and Buyer Guide
Shield Advanced is $3,000/mo per org plus DTO fees — for a consumer marketplace (~180M req/mo CloudFront), cost protection credited $41k in scaling charges after a 38-minute L7 event when WAF rate rules were pre-configured.
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Security & Compliance
Mar 29, 2026palaniappan p17 min
How to Protect AWS Infrastructure from Cost-Based Attacks
Billing attacks: CloudFront request floods, Lambda bombs, SQS/SNS OTP spam. July 2026 — WAF ceilings, reserved concurrency, Budgets Actions, FinOps backstops.
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aws
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rate-limiting
cost-optimization
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