Alibaba Cloud provides you with various DDoS mitigation solutions. You can select an appropriate solution based on your business needs. This topic describes the DDoS mitigation solutions and application scenarios.
The DDoS mitigation solutions include Anti-DDoS Origin Basic, Anti-DDoS Origin Enterprise, Anti-DDoS Pro, Anti-DDoS Premium, and GameShield. Anti-DDoS Origin Basic is provided free of charge. The following table describes these solutions.
Solution | Overview | Scenario | Protection capability |
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Anti-DDoS Origin Basic | Anti-DDoS Origin Basic can defend against up to 5 Gbit/s of DDoS attacks free of charge for public IP addresses of Alibaba Cloud services. The services include Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Server Load Balancer (SLB), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Elastic IP Address (EIP). | Business that has basic requirements on security. Anti-DDoS Origin Basic is automatically enabled after you purchase an Alibaba Cloud service. We recommend that you use other security solutions for additional protection if your business has higher requirements on security. | The maximum protection capability is 5 Gbit/s.
For more information, see Editions. |
Anti-DDoS Origin Enterprise | Anti-DDoS Origin Enterprise improves the protection capability for Alibaba Cloud services,
such as ECS, SLB, WAF, and EIP.
You can apply the protection capability of Anti-DDoS Origin Enterprise to Alibaba Cloud services with a simple configuration. |
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Anti-DDoS Origin Enterprise supports unlimited protection. For more information, see unlimited protection. |
Anti-DDoS Pro and Anti-DDoS Premium | Anti-DDoS Pro and Anti-DDoS Premium protect servers on the Internet against volumetric
DDoS attacks. These servers may be deployed on Alibaba Cloud or provided by a third
party.
After the configuration, your business traffic is forwarded to Anti-DDoS Pro or Anti-DDoS Premium for scrubbing. Only normal traffic is forwarded to the origin server. This ensures the stability and reliability of the origin server. |
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GameShield | GameShield protects against DDoS and HTTP flood attacks in the gaming industry.
Similar to Anti-DDoS Pro or Anti-DDoS Premium, GameShield can defend against Tbit/s-level DDoS attacks. GameShield can also defend against TCP-based HTTP flood attacks that are specific to the gaming industry. |
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GameShield can defend against Tbit/s-level DDoS attacks. |