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Amazon Cloudfront is a CDN. A significant portion of a CDNs job is to be highly redundant and to handle DDoS. If you're comparing Amazon's offering to Linode,
by nacs 11y ago
Amazon Cloudfront is a CDN. A significant portion of a CDNs job is to be highly redundant and to handle DDoS.
If you're comparing Amazon's offering to Linode, you should really compare to the protection Amazon offers on EC2 and similar VPS-like products.
- justinholmes 11y agoI was merely answering the question "What DDoS protection does AWS provide?". Normally you wouldn't expose a EC2 instance without putting cloudfront, elbs in front of it and locking down incoming traffic to cloudfront IPs.