October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
Cloud Armor uses Google's global infrastructure to provide defense at scale against DDoS attacks. It is used to blacklist or whitelist access to your HTTPS load balancer. This can be used to prevent malicious users or traffic from contacting your resources, or—worse—taking control of your VPC based on rule sets. The following screenshot shows a policy that is set to deny a specific IP and give a 404 error:

By clicking on the Targets tab, we can see that the policy is targeting a backend load balancer, as shown in the following screenshot:
Cloud Armor logs allow us to see any access attempts and tells us which source requested ...
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