Tutorial: How to protect your API proxy's target backend against severe traffic spikes and denial of service attacks

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Your APIs backend can handle certain amount of traffic, and the Spike Arrest policy helps you smooth traffic to the general amounts you want. In this video we show you how to implement Apigee's out of the box Spike Arrest policy in order to protect your backend against denial of service attacks and ensure that the exposure of your infrastructure is in line with its capacity.

Also checkout Edge documentation for other out of the box rate limiting policies.