Adaptive Traffic Shifter

A Google Cloud Armor security feature that uses machine learning to automatically detect and mitigate Layer 7 DDoS attacks in real time.

Adaptive Traffic Shifter leverages Google's internal ML models to monitor traffic baselines and flag anomalies like a sudden 15x surge in POST requests. Once the system identifies a threat, it generates a custom security signature and applies a mitigation rule to your load balancer in under 30 seconds. This automation neutralizes high-volume botnets (peaking at 2 million requests per second) without manual intervention, keeping your backend latency stable and your services online for legitimate users.

https://cloud.google.com/armor/docs/adaptive-protection-overview