A high-profile municipal elections results site expects volumetric…

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A high-profile municipal elections results site expects volumetric DDoS and sophisticated Layer 7 abuse on election night. Which mitigation strategy best fits?

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Combine AWS Shield Advanced with AWS WAF rules (and appropriate edge/CDN placement) to mitigate large volumetric attacks and application-layer exploits. — Election night is a stadium concert for attackers. Shield Advanced handles the flood of bodies at the gate; WAF checks the tickets and stops the crafty Layer 7 tricks.

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Host the site on a single public EC2 instance with only an OS firewall and no edge protections.

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Rely solely on security group allow lists and assume volumetric floods cannot saturate links.

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Publish results only over unencrypted FTP to reduce HTTP attack surface.

A high-profile municipal elections results site expects volumetric DDoS and sophisticated Layer 7 abuse on election night. Which mitigation strategy best fits?

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