AWS to retire Shield Advanced L7 automatic mitigation on January 1, 2027

AWS is retiring Shield Advanced Layer 7 automatic mitigation on 1 January 2027, replacing it with a new Anti-DDoS managed rule group in AWS WAF. Customers must migrate their protection rules by the deadline or lose application-layer DDoS defence.

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