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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Inventors:
Joseph Paul Zipperer, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Bruce Dickinson, Seattle, WA (US);
Kirk Arlo Petersen, Nevada City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/1458 (2013.01);
Abstract
Functionality is disclosed herein for regulating bandwidth that is available for network traffic flowing through a data communications network. In response to attack traffic being detected, one or more traffic regulators are set to control an available bandwidth to be used by the attack traffic. The one or more traffic regulators are adjusted until an attack is no longer detected. After the attack ends, the traffic regulator may be disabled or set to a different mode of operation.