Authorsergii-demianchuk

The contemporary digital landscape is defined by an escalating arms race between application developers and automated threat actors. As business-critical applications become increasingly open to the global internet, the risk of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, particularly at the HTTP application layer, has shifted from a rare possibility to an inevitability. While infrastructure...

If you have ever tried to stop a sophisticated scraper or a DDoS attack using standard AWS WAF rate limits, you likely ran into the wall with bigboard: IP rotation. Traditionally, rate-based rules are simple. The WAF counts requests from a specific key (usually an IP address) in a rolling 5-minute window. If that IP crosses a threshold, the WAF blocks it. This works great for sloppy scripts. But...