I'm curious to know if anyone here has real experience with AWS Shield Advanced for mitigating UDP flooding attacks. I'm talking about attacks that are at least 10Gbps or 10 million packets per second and potentially even higher. We've tried everything else, like using powerful bare metal and network-optimized instances with an eBPF XDP program that successfully drops all the packets for the target port. Despite that, we still lose connectivity after a minute or two, and our service continues to struggle. It seems like the only option left is to invest in Shield Advanced-protected Elastic IPs. If anyone has insights on how quickly attacks are detected and mitigated, or their overall effectiveness, I'd really appreciate it. I've read the documentation, but I'm looking for user experiences.
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You might want to reach out to AWS support for their insights. They've got a lot of expertise with these kinds of situations.
Yeah, but I'm hoping to get some real-world experiences from users instead of just a sales pitch. Anyone else?