AWS WAF Rate Limiting: Stop Layer 7 DDoS and Bot Attacks 26 Mar 2026 Post a Comment Unprotected endpoints are magnets for Layer 7 DDoS attacks. When a botnet floods your application with thousands of HTTP requests, your backend ser… AWS SecurityAWS WAF rate limitingBot mitigationCloud SecurityLayer 7 DDoS protectionRate Based RulesWeb Application Firewall