Creating a load balancer with DDoS protection

Distributed denial of service, or DDoS, is a type of cyberattack that involves sending massive numbers of requests to a server or network to overwhelm it or make it inoperable.

In this tutorial, you will deploy a DDoS protection infrastructure for app backends in Yandex Cloud. To do this, you will create a cloud network, set up Yandex Virtual Private Cloud security groups, create a Yandex Compute Cloud instance group as backends and link it to the infrastructure of a Yandex Application Load Balancer L7 load balancer with a DDoS-protected public IP address.

You can create a DDoS protection infrastructure using the following tools:

• Management console, CLI: Use the Yandex Cloud management console or CLI to create your infrastructure step by step.
• Terraform: Streamline creating and managing your resources using the infrastructure as code (IaC) approach. Download a Terraform configuration example and then deploy the infrastructure using the Yandex Cloud Terraform provider.