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Protection - AWS Shield Advanced

Protection

An object that represents a resource that is under DDoS protection.

Contents

ApplicationLayerAutomaticResponseConfiguration

The automatic application layer DDoS mitigation settings for the protection. This configuration determines whether Shield Advanced automatically manages rules in the web ACL in order to respond to application layer events that Shield Advanced determines to be DDoS attacks.

Type: ApplicationLayerAutomaticResponseConfiguration object

Required: No

HealthCheckIds

The unique identifier (ID) for the Route 53 health check that's associated with the protection.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

Id

The unique identifier (ID) of the protection.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9\\-]*

Required: No

Name

The name of the protection. For example, My CloudFront distributions.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [ a-zA-Z0-9_\\.\\-]*

Required: No

ProtectionArn

The ARN (Amazon Resource Name) of the protection.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: ^arn:aws.*

Required: No

ResourceArn

The ARN (Amazon Resource Name) of the AWS resource that is protected.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: ^arn:aws.*

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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