DDoS Protection
Always-on defense against volumetric and application-layer attacks — measured in Tbps, not promises.
What you're up against.
Volumetric floods overwhelm everything
Terabit-scale attacks can saturate on-prem scrubbing centres, upstream transit links, and even some cloud providers before your team has raised an incident ticket.
Application-layer attacks slip through
Layer 7 attacks target login forms and APIs with low-volume, high-impact traffic. Volumetric defenses don't see them — and they're responsible for most service outages.
DNS amplification at the resolver layer
Attackers weaponise open resolvers to amplify traffic 50x or more. Without DNS-layer protection, your infrastructure goes down before the source is even identified.
From deployment to continuous operation.
Onboard
We route your traffic through Akamai's edge network, enabling always-on scrubbing without adding latency to legitimate requests.
Baseline
We profile your normal traffic patterns so mitigation activates the moment deviation is detected — no manual trigger, no waiting.
Protect
Attacks are absorbed at the edge, 700+ Tbps away from your infrastructure. Your origin sees nothing but clean traffic.
Respond
Our engineers monitor in real time during active events, tune thresholds on the fly, and deliver post-incident reports after every attack.
What's included.
Always-on scrubbing
Traffic is inspected on every request at the edge — no 'detect then redirect' delay that leaves you exposed for minutes during an attack.
Anycast routing
Attack traffic is absorbed across 4,000+ PoPs simultaneously — never concentrating at a single scrubbing centre that could be overwhelmed.
Application-layer defence
Layer 7 rate limiting and behavioural analysis stops low-rate floods that volumetric thresholds miss entirely.
DNS DDoS protection
Authoritative and recursive DNS protection stops amplification and reflection attacks before they reach your infrastructure.
Origin shielding
Your origin IP is never exposed to the internet. Attackers have nothing to target directly — only Akamai's edge.
SLA-backed mitigation
Contractual time-to-mitigation SLAs backed by Akamai's network capacity — not best-effort promises from an undersized scrubbing centre.
Akamai's scrubbing network is the largest on the planet — distributed across 4,000+ PoPs so even the biggest attacks are absorbed close to source, with no latency penalty for legitimate traffic.
Common questions.
What types of DDoS attacks do you protect against?
We cover the full spectrum: volumetric attacks (UDP floods, DNS amplification, NTP reflection), protocol attacks (SYN floods, fragmentation), and application-layer attacks (HTTP floods, slow-rate attacks targeting specific endpoints). Akamai's scrubbing capacity exceeds 700 Tbps - enough to absorb even the largest recorded attacks.
How quickly does DDoS mitigation activate?
There is no activation delay. Always-on protection means traffic is continuously routed through Akamai's scrubbing infrastructure. Automated detection and mitigation of new attack signatures typically completes within 60 seconds - with no manual intervention required from you or us.
Will DDoS protection affect my legitimate users?
No. Akamai differentiates attack traffic from legitimate requests using behavioural signals, global reputation data, and traffic baselining specific to your application. Legitimate users experience normal performance - even during an active terabit-scale attack.
Do you protect against application-layer (Layer 7) attacks?
Yes. HTTP floods, slow-rate attacks, and API-targeted volumetric abuse are covered alongside traditional volumetric DDoS. Layer 7 protection is delivered through rate limiting and behavioural analysis tuned to your application's traffic patterns - not generic thresholds.
Let's plan your next move.
A 30-minute consultation with one of our senior architects. Walk away with a clear, vendor-neutral assessment of your security and performance posture.