What are the best software to mitigate DDOS attacks?

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What are the best software to mitigate DDOS attacks?

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Best software to mitigate DDOS attacks	Price	Last Updated
-- CloudFront	-	Mar 10, 2021
-- CloudFlare	-	Nov 3, 2020
-- CloudFlare Red October	-	May 4, 2019
-- L7 Defense	-	May 4, 2019

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CloudFront

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CloudFlare

Top Con

Slow support

Even on paid (Pro) account, support often takes several hours per reply. So a single query can take days to resolve. See More

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Lowers usability of the web for Tor users

Tor users are required to enter captcha at each site using CloudFlare. In some circumstances, this introduces unsolvable roadblock. See More

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Layer 7 attacks must be manually identified

In order to enable layer 7 protection with Cloudflare, customers must manually press an "I'm under attack" button. See More

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Relies on intrusive captcha screens to validate visitors

During large attacks, Cloudflare will block users with captcha screens to filter out malicious attacks. Albeit effective, they cause a considerable annoyance to legitimate users. See More

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Support doesn't have access to logs

Log access is an enterprise feature and priced at the "contact us" level. So when an error code is returned to the user that wasn't returned from your app, debugging this is impossible at the pro level. Unfortunately these logs aren't available to support personnel either so they have no way of tracking/validating issues. See More

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Practices Man-in-the-Middle certificate forgery

Https ("secure") comunications with sites using CloudFlare are intercepted at their servers, decrypted and recrypted with CloudFlare's certificates. This poses huge problem with what users perceive as safe communication - browsers fail to display notice about MitM taking place. See More

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Lack of cache control

If you want to cache all kinds of content (e.g. HTML, JSON), you need the "Cache Everything" setting, and this imposes a long "max-age" directive of 2 hours. It ignores your origin server's value. See More

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What are the best software to mitigate DDOS attacks?

4 Options Considered

CloudFront

My Recommendation for CloudFront

My Recommendation for CloudFront

CloudFlare

My Recommendation for CloudFlare

My Recommendation for CloudFlare

Slow support

Lowers usability of the web for Tor users

Layer 7 attacks must be manually identified

Relies on intrusive captcha screens to validate visitors

Support doesn't have access to logs

Practices Man-in-the-Middle certificate forgery

Lack of cache control

CloudFlare Red October

My Recommendation for CloudFlare Red October

My Recommendation for CloudFlare Red October

L7 Defense

My Recommendation for L7 Defense

My Recommendation for L7 Defense

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