Fastly DDoS Protection is now available!
We’ve built on over a decade of experience fighting the biggest DDoS attacks to develop a new product that detects, identifies, and mitigates attacks automatically with no required tuning. Fastly DDoS Protection deploys on any service in seconds and immediately fights off attacks.
We’re excited to get this in your hands. Here are answers to the most common questions we’ve heard from customers:
1. Doesn’t Fastly already offer DDoS mitigation?
We do! Our edge offers protection against Layer 3 and 4 DDoS, we have various rate-limiting tools, and even a DDoS Mitigation and Insurance Service. Fastly DDoS Protection builds upon all of these to create a new scalable, automatic, and versatile solution.
Fastly DDoS Protection deploys on our edge to include those Layer 3/4 protections while offering automatic protection against the type of attacks you’d manually create rate-limiting rules for. Additionally, it offers a zero attack fee billing model, meaning that it bills on legitimate traffic and never the attack traffic it mitigates, thus eliminating the need for DDoS insurance. The result is a highly effective product that automatically mitigates application DDoS but requires no tuning or expertise.
2. Where does this deploy?
Fastly DDoS Protection can deploy in front of any Delivery or Compute service. Once enabled, you’ll see the option to toggle it in the security section of any service’s configuration.
3. Is this safe?
Yes! Fastly DDoS Protection is built on proprietary and adaptive Attribute Unmasking technology. Originally developed to protect our platform, we’ve enhanced the core technology to automatically detect, identify, and mitigate DDoS attacks on your services. Attribute Unmasking is highly accurate and limits undesired impacts to legitimate traffic. Attribute Unmasking doesn’t rely solely on signatures or fingerprints like other tools. When unexpected volumetric traffic events arise, Fastly’s proprietary Attribute Unmasking validates their legitimacy and, if malicious, begins scanning a comprehensive list of characteristics to identify and confidently mitigate attacks.
Best of all, because Fastly DDoS Protection is the first product to inspect traffic in Fastly’s architecture, it blocks malicious DDoS requests before they’re processed (and billed) by your other Fastly products.
We’re happy to answer any questions you have! Leave a comment for us to respond to below, or contact your account manager to schedule a walkthrough. You can also check out the launch blog to learn about why we built a better application DDoS solution.