Best DDoS Security Services for Web Servers

Cloudflare is the default pick for most web servers because the free plan already covers the core need. The free plan costs $0 and includes unmetered HTTP and HTTPS DDoS protection for a proxied site. Pro costs $20 per month when billed annually, or $25 per month when billed monthly, and it adds managed WAF rules, 20 custom rules instead of 5, and ticket support.

• Business costs $200 per month when billed annually, or $250 per month when billed monthly.
• That step up matters for a revenue site, because Business adds the 100 percent uptime SLA and PCI support that Pro does not include.

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AWS Shield Advanced is the enterprise tier for sites that already run on AWS. Shield Standard is included at no extra cost for AWS customers, and it covers common network and transport layer attacks. Shield Advanced costs $3,000 per month, needs a 1-year commitment, and is charged per payer account, with data transfer out fees on top.

• Advanced includes the application layer DDoS protection AWS Managed Rule group, and standard AWS WAF usage up to 50 billion requests per month, with r
• It also gives cost protection against scaling charges caused by a DDoS attack, and access to the Shield Response Team.
• Choose it when downtime would cost more than $3,000 per month.

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Azure DDoS Protection has two tiers, and the right tier depends on a simple count. IP Protection costs $199 per protected IP per month, and it protects one IP resource at a time. Network Protection costs $2,944 per month, covers up to 100 protected IP resources in a tenant, and bills extra IPs above 100 at $29.50 per resource per month.

• Microsoft states that IP Protection is cheaper below 15 protected IPs, and Network Protection is cheaper above 15.
• At 14 IPs, IP Protection costs $2,786 per month, while at 15 IPs it costs $2,985 per month, more than the $2,944 Network Protection plan.
• Network Protection also adds DDoS Rapid Response access, cost protection, and a WAF discount for Application Gateway with WAF in a protected virtual n

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Google Cloud Armor is the native option for sites behind a Google Cloud load balancer. The Standard tier is billed per use: $0.75 per 1,000,000 requests for globally scoped security policies, $0.60 per 1,000,000 requests for regionally scoped policies, $0.006849315 per hour for each security policy, and $0.001369863 per hour for each rule. Cloud Armor Enterprise has two models.

• Enterprise Paygo lists a subscription price of $0.273972603 per hour and includes up to 2 protected resources.
• Enterprise Annual lists a subscription price of $4.109589041 per hour and includes up to 100 protected resources across all projects, with a 1-year co
• Enterprise adds Adaptive Protection, DDoS cost protection, and access to a DDoS response team, plus a data processing fee.

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Imperva DDoS Protection is an enterprise service that covers websites, networks, DNS servers, and single IPs. The website option is always on, and it works by routing HTTP and HTTPS traffic through the Imperva proxy after a DNS change, which masks the origin server IP. The network option protects whole infrastructures with GRE tunnels, Cross Connects, or Equinix Fabric, and it can run always on or on demand.

• The single IP option protects one internet-facing IP for non-HTTP assets.
• Imperva lists a guaranteed 3-second mitigation SLA for Layer 3 and 4 attacks, and 13 Tbps of global scrubbing capacity.
• Imperva lists no price on its DDoS page, so the starting price is quote only, and a free trial is offered for Cloud WAF.

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Akamai Prolexic is a dedicated scrubbing service for large networks, and it is the option to look at when the attack surface goes beyond a normal website. Prolexic covers cloud, on-premises, and hybrid setups, and it can run always on or on demand. The on-premises option is powered by Corero, and the hybrid option combines on-premises scrubbing with the cloud platform.

• Traffic is routed to the nearest scrubbing center by anycast, filtered there, and only clean traffic is sent on to the origin.
• Akamai lists 20+ Tbps of dedicated defense capacity across 32 anycast global scrubbing centers, a zero-second mitigation SLA, and a 100 percent platfo
• The service is staffed by more than 225 frontline SOCC responders across six global locations, with 24/7 support.
• Akamai lists no price for Prolexic, so the starting price is quote only.

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Sucuri is the budget pick for a single small site that needs a cloud firewall in front of the server. The Basic Firewall costs $9.99 per month for one site, and the Pro Firewall costs $19.98 per month. Both include the cloud WAF and a CDN layer, and traffic is filtered through the Sucuri network after a DNS change, before it reaches the origin server.

• That placement is the key point for DDoS cover: attack traffic is blocked away from the server, so the server does not have to absorb the flood itself
• The Platform plans add monitoring, scanning, and cleanup.
• Basic Platform costs $229 per year for one site, Pro Platform costs $339 per year, and Business Platform costs $549 per year.
• Basic includes a complete security scan every 12 hours and a 30-hour first-response time for malware removal, Pro moves that to every 6 hours and 12 h

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Fastly is an edge platform that combines content delivery with security, and its DDoS pricing is usage based. The pricing page lists DDoS Protection at $1.00 per 10,000 requests for 500,000 to 10 million requests per month, with the first 500,000 requests free. The rate then falls to $0.50 per 10,000 requests for 10 million to 50 million requests, and to $0.30 per 10,000 requests for 50 million to 100 million requests.

• Bandwidth in North America and Europe costs $0.12 per GB for 100 GB to 10 TB.
• The security packages on the pricing page are a separate line: Security Core, Security Core Plus, and Security Total are all listed as contact sales,

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