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U.S. Agencies Release Guidelines for DDoS Attacks

SecureWorld News

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aim to overwhelm a target's application or website, exhausting the system's resources and making the target inaccessible to legitimate users. While DDoS attacks are relatively simple to execute, they are frequently used by threat actors and can be a real thorn in the side of an organization.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

We also made it easy for customers to leverage multiple Availability Zones to architect the various layers of their applications with a few clicks on the AWS Management Console with services such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing , Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB.

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Weekly Update 6-3-2019

Linux Academy

You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system. Configure auto-scaling with load balancers. Performing a Backup and Restore Using AMI and EBS. Install software packages. Set up a webserver to serve requests. Working with MongoDB. Working with Couchbase. Working with PostgreSQL.

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Top 10 Most Popular Hands-On Labs

Linux Academy

Cloud Systems Engineer, Amazon Web Services. Creating and configuring Secure AWS RDS Instances with a Reader and Backup Solution. In this live AWS environment, you will learn how to create an RDS database, then successfully implement a read replica and backups for that database. .” – Mohammad Iqbal.

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How can such a small file do so much damage?

Dataconomy

A zip bomb on the other hand is a malicious ZIP file that is designed to overwhelm a computer system with data. A zip bomb is a malicious ZIP file designed to overwhelm a computer system with data ( Image credit ) To create a zip bomb, an attacker will create a ZIP file containing a large number of identical files.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) And the system gets another layer of complexity when you consider that. location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.

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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS

Cloud Musings

They were also able to deploy both production and development systems to the Teradata Cloud, with the option to add disaster recovery systems in the future. Through this strategy, the company was relieved of most of the care and feeding of its data warehouse.