What’s changed isn’t just the volume, but the strategy. Attackers now favour short, high-impact “blitz” floods during peak business hours. They pulse traffic in waves to evade detection or scatter it across vast IP ranges in a technique called “carpet-bombing.” These attacks can saturate upstream links and collapse networks before on-premise defences can react. Legacy scrubbing appliances were not built for this kind of speed or volume.
That’s why Horizon 1 exists. It’s the outermost layer of RedShield’s three-horizon DDoS and bot defence model and is built on AWS Global Accelerator and Shield Advanced. This layer provides always-on, global-scale DDoS mitigation. All traffic is routed to the nearest AWS edge location where terabit-scale filters strip out volumetric junk before it reaches your infrastructure. With packet-level inspection and live global threat intel, RedShield’s protection blocks known attack signatures, malformed requests, and risky traffic sources at the edge.
This model isn’t just theoretical. When one of our customers in New Zealand was targeted with a DDoS wave that surged from 50 Gbps to 2.3 Tbps in minutes, RedShield’s service absorbed the entire load at the edge. The customer stayed online, users saw no disruption, and the attack collapsed within the hour.
With 5G and fibre continuing to increase available bandwidth, attacks at this scale and beyond will only become more common. RedShield’s DDoS protection is already built for that future.
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