Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mitigating network attacks
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Application No.: US14864638Application Date: 2015-09-24
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Publication No.: US09774619B1Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Anton Stephen Radlein , Nathan Alan Dye , Craig Wesley Howard , Harvo Reyzell Jones
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described that enable the mitigation of network attacks directed to specific sets of content on a content delivery system. A set of content targeted in the attack may be identified based at least in part on a combination of network addresses to which attacked-related packets are transmitted. Thereafter, the content delivery system may mitigate the attack based on the identified target. For example, where both targeted and non-targeted sets of content are associated with the attacked network addresses, traffic directed to these sets of content may be separated, e.g., in order to reduce the impact of the attack on the non-targeted sets of content or increase the computing resources available to the targeted content. Redirection of traffic may occur using either or both of resolution-based redirection or routing-based redirection.
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