Traffic spikes keep taking us down. When does CDN DDoS protection suffice, and when is it not enough?

Volumetric floods die at the anycast edge; everything else reaches your origin anyway. The origin leak, expensive endpoints and unproxied surfaces decide whether a CDN is armour or decoration.

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Volumetric floods die at the anycast edge; everything else reaches your origin anyway. The origin leak, expensive endpoints and unproxied surfaces decide whether a CDN is armour or decoration.

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