Cloudflare Rate Limiting - Insight, Control, and Mitigation against Layer 7 DDoS Attacks

Cloudflare has extended its Rate Limiting service to all customers across all plans as an optional paid feature. The first 10,000 qualifying requests are free. Rate Limiting helps protect websites and APIs against denial-of-service attacks, brute-force password attempts, and other types of abusive behavior targeting the application layer. Several examples show how customers have successfully used Rate Limiting to mitigate malicious attacks, reduce infrastructure costs, and protect valuable information such as intellectual property and customer data.