How to customize your response to layer 7 DDoS attacks using AWS WAF Anti-DDoS AMR

The article describes how AWS WAF’s Anti-DDoS AMR baselines traffic, labels requests (event-detected, ddos-request, suspicion levels, challengeable-request), and applies block/challenge actions, then demonstrates how to customize mitigation for L7 DDoS attacks using labels and additional rules—including more aggressive controls outside core geographies, tighter rate limits on sensitive URLs during attacks, and an adaptive strategy that triggers broader challenges only when application capacity is exceeded—to enable granular, context-aware protection.