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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the largest availability and security concerns facing customers that are moving their applications to the cloud. A DDoS attack attempts to exhaust an application’s resources, making the application unavailable to legitimate users. DDoS attacks can be targeted at any endpoint that is publicly reachable through the internet.
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When you combine DDoS Protection with recommended application design practices, you help provide a defense against DDoS attacks. DDoS Protection uses the scale and elasticity of Microsoft’s global network to bring DDoS mitigation capacity to every Azure region. The DDoS Protection service helps protect your Azure applications by analyzing and discarding DDoS traffic at the Azure network edge, before it can affect your service’s availability.
This diagram shows network traffic flowing into Azure from both customers and an attacker:
If the resource is protected with DDoS Protection Standard, any scale out costs during a DDoS attack are covered and customer will get the cost credit back for those scaled out resources.
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