A volumetric flood saturates links toward the city's public citizen portal. Which control is best positioned to absorb that attack at provider scale?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
When megabits turn into gigabits of junk traffic, a tiny office firewall cannot drink from that firehose—you need the provider's edge to soak it up. DDoS protection at cloud scale keeps the citizen portal reachable. Advertising the origin IP or turning off CDN and scaling mid-attack makes things worse.
Full Explanation
DDoS protection for Internet-facing cloud services uses provider-edge capacity to absorb volumetric floods before they overwhelm customer links and origins. A single desktop firewall cannot match that scale. Disabling CDN/autoscaling or exposing origin IPs increases susceptibility. Cloud+ security controls include DDoS mitigation for public cloud workloads.