If your website requires both access acceleration and DDoS mitigation, you can use the Alibaba Cloud CDN (CDN) or Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN) interaction feature. You can use Sec-Traffic Manager to enable intelligent scheduling. If no DDoS attacks occur, the nearest CDN or DCDN node is used to accelerate service access. If DDoS attacks occur, traffic is switched to your Anti-DDoS Proxy instance for scrubbing and only service traffic is forwarded to your origin server to ensure service stability. This topic describes how to configure the CDN or DCDN interaction feature.
Description
If your website requires both access acceleration and DDoS mitigation, Alibaba Cloud provides the following solutions:
Solution 1: (Recommended) Enable the DDoS mitigation feature in DCDN
After you add the domain name of your website to DCDN, you can enable the DDoS mitigation feature with a few clicks. No configurations are required in the Anti-DDoS Proxy console. For more information, see Mitigation settings.
NoteOnly DCDN supports the DDoS mitigation feature. If you add the domain name of your website to CDN, you can migrate the domain name to DCDN and use the DDoS mitigation feature. For more information, see Upgrade from Alibaba Cloud CDN to DCDN for your domain name.
Solution 2: Enable the CDN or DCDN interaction feature
This solution is described in this topic. Traffic is switched to your Anti-DDoS Proxy instance for scrubbing and only service traffic is forwarded to the origin server. You must add the domain name of your website to CDN or DCDN and Anti-DDoS Proxy. Then, you must configure an interaction rule in Sec-Traffic Manager of Anti-DDoS Proxy.
After you configure an interaction rule, traffic is switched to your Anti-DDoS Proxy instance for scrubbing and only service traffic is forwarded to the origin server. If you enable the DDoS mitigation feature on DCDN, traffic is switched to your Anti-DDoS Proxy instance for scrubbing and service traffic is forwarded to DCDN. Access acceleration is ensured even when your website is under attack. For more information, see the following figures.
Usage notes
If the service bandwidth of your website exceeds 3 Gbit/s or the queries per second (QPS) exceeds 10,000, contact your account manager for evaluation before you use the CDN or DCDN interaction feature.
If your website is attacked more than three times per week, we recommend that you use only Anti-DDoS Proxy. This prevents frequent traffic switching between CDN or DCDN and Anti-DDoS Proxy from affecting your service.
Only the Anti-DDoS Proxy instance that uses an IPv4 address supports the CDN or DCDN interaction feature.
When an attack occurs, the configurations take effect based on the time to live (TTL) of your domain name system (DNS) records after traffic is switched to your instance.
Before you use the CDN or DCDN interaction feature, make sure that your CDN- or DCDN-accelerated domain name is not added to a sandbox. For more information, see Introduction to sandboxes. If your CDN- or DCDN-accelerated domain name is added to a sandbox and you want to configure DDoS mitigation for the domain name and remove the domain name from the sandbox, contact your account manager.
Supported instance types
Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instances of the Profession and Advanced mitigation plans and Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instances of the Insurance and Unlimited mitigation plans. The instances of the preceding mitigation plans must use the Enhanced function plan.
Prerequisites
The domain name of your website is added to CDN or DCDN. For more information, see Add a domain name for CDN interaction or Add a domain name for DCDN interaction.
An Anti-DDoS Proxy instance is purchased and the domain name of your website is added to the instance. For more information, see Purchase an Anti-DDoS Proxy instance and Add one or more websites.
The Anti-DDoS Proxy instance forwards service traffic as expected. For more information, see Verify traffic forwarding settings on a local machine.
Procedure
Log on to the Anti-DDoS Proxy console.
In the top navigation bar, select the region of your instance.
Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland): If your instance is an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instance, select Chinese Mainland.
Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland): If your instance is an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland), select Outside Chinese Mainland.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose . On the page that appears, click the CDN/DCDN Interaction tab.
NoteThe first time you use the CDN or DCDN interaction feature, click Authorize Now. Then, authorize Anti-DDoS Proxy to access CDN or DCDN as prompted.
Find the domain name that you want to manage and click Create Interaction Rule in the Actions column. In the Create Interaction Rule panel, configure the parameters and click Next.
Parameter
Description
Anti-DDoS Instance
The instance that you want to use together with CDN or DCDN.
NoteIf the system returns the To enable CDN interaction, you must use an instance of the Enhanced function plan. message, upgrade the instance to the Enhanced function plan as prompted.
If the system returns the No instance is selected. message, add the domain name of your website to the instance. For more information, see Add websites.
Resource for Interaction
The resource for interaction is automatically selected.
If you do not add the domain name of your website to CDN or DCDN, select Alibaba Cloud CDN or Alibaba Cloud DCDN. Wait for approximately 10 minutes. Then, add your domain name as prompted. For more information, see Add a domain name for CDN interaction or Add a domain name for DCDN interaction.
Access QPS
The minimum QPS threshold. If this threshold is reached, traffic switchover to Anti-DDoS Proxy is triggered.
For more information about traffic switchover, see Switch traffic.
NoteTo handle traffic spikes, we recommend that you set this parameter to more than two to three times the historical peak QPS of your website. Do not specify a value that is less than 500 regardless of whether the QPS of your website is low.
Modify the hosts file on your computer to verify the network acceleration rule. This helps avoid incompatibility issues that are caused by inconsistent back-to-origin policies. For more information, see Verify traffic forwarding settings on a local machine.
For example, CDN allows you to change the origin host for back-to-origin requests. However, you cannot use Anti-DDoS Proxy to change the origin host for back-to-origin requests. If you use the CDN interaction feature to retrieve data from an Object Storage Service (OSS) object, service traffic that is forwarded by Anti-DDoS Proxy cannot be identified by OSS. As a result, your service is interrupted.
Visit the website of your DNS provider and change the DNS record to forward traffic to the CNAME of Sec-Traffic Manager. For more information, see Change the CNAME record to redirect traffic to Sec-Traffic Manager.
NoteWhen you add the domain name of your website to CDN or DCDN, Anti-DDoS Proxy, and an interaction rule, three CNAMEs are generated by CDN or DCDN, Anti-DDoS Proxy, and Sec-Traffic Manager. In this case, you must make sure that the domain name is resolved to the CNAME of Sec-Traffic Manager.
Switch traffic
Traffic can be automatically or manually switched. After an interaction rule is created and if the conditions for a switchover are met, traffic is automatically switched between CDN or DCDN and your instance. You can also manually switch traffic to your instance and then manually switch traffic back to CDN or DCDN based on your business requirements. In most cases, we recommend that you use automatic switchover.
Automatic switchover
Switch type | Condition |
Switchover from CDN or DCDN to Anti-DDoS Proxy | If one of the following conditions is met, a switchover is triggered:
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Switchover from Anti-DDoS Proxy to CDN or DCDN | If all of the following conditions are met, a switchover is triggered:
Important Traffic can be switched back to CDN or DCDN only in the time range from 08:00 to 23:00. |
Manual switchover
Switch type | Description |
Switchover from CDN or DCDN to Anti-DDoS Proxy | If traffic scrubbing by your instance is not automatically triggered, you can manually switch traffic to the instance for scrubbing. If traffic spikes but does not meet the conditions for automatic switchover, you can manually switch traffic to the instance to prevent adverse impacts of attacks on your website. Important
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Switchover from Anti-DDoS Proxy to CDN or DCDN | If traffic is switched to your instance due to service traffic spikes, you can manually switch traffic to CDN or DCDN to prevent adverse impacts on your website. Important Before you switch traffic back to CDN or DCDN, make sure that the attacks stop and the domain name is not added to a sandbox. |
Related operations
Modify an interaction rule: On the CDN/DCDN Interaction tab, find the domain name that you want to manage and click Edit in the Actions column to modify the Anti-DDoS Instance or Access QPS parameter.
Delete an interaction rule: On the CDN/DCDN Interaction tab, find the domain name that you want to manage and click Delete in the Actions column.
WarningBefore you delete an interaction rule, make sure that the domain name of your website is not mapped to the CNAME of Sec-Traffic Manager. Otherwise, access to your website may fail after you delete the rule.