Advanced Rate Limiting
Enterprise Advanced Rate Limiting
Protect your infrastructure with multi-dimensional rate limiting at the edge.
The Challenge
Sudden spikes in traffic or brute-force attacks can overwhelm your origin servers and database, leading to downtime.
The ZTLayer Solution
Implement granular, multi-dimensional rate limits based on IP, user session, or custom headers, enforced globally at the edge.
Architecture
Counters are stored in a highly available, globally distributed Redis cluster. State is synchronized across PoPs to ensure rate limits are enforced accurately regardless of where the user connects from.
Best Practices
- Define different rate limits for authenticated vs unauthenticated traffic.
- Return HTTP 429 Too Many Requests with a Retry-After header.
- Use penalty boxes to temporarily block IPs that repeatedly hit rate limits.
Enterprise Use Cases
- Protecting login endpoints from brute force.
- Preventing API abuse and enforcing pricing tier quotas.
- Managing unpredictable traffic spikes.
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