IDC & Cloud

DDoS Protection for IDCs and Cloud Providers

Protect your customers — and your reputation.

The unique dilemma for IDCs and clouds

For IDCs and cloud providers, DDoS is not merely a technical issue — it is a business model issue:

  • One tenant attacked, the whole facility suffers — when the upstream link saturates, your other customers go offline too, directly hurting renewals.
  • Upstream blackhole policy you cannot control — your transit provider may null-route an entire IP block during a large attack, with no chance for you to explain.
  • Customers expect protection — "do you have DDoS protection?" is now a standard pre-signing question.
  • Building your own scrubbing is expensive — appliances, bandwidth reserves, and specialist staff are not economical for most IDCs.

What AwayDDoS offers IDCs and cloud providers

1. Whole-subnet tunnel protection

Using GRE / BGP tunnels, your facility's entire IP block is steered into our scrubbing centers — covering all ports and protocols at once with no per-customer configuration. Attacks are washed away before reaching your facility, so your upstream link is never saturated.

2. Per-tenant attack isolation

When one tenant becomes a target, scrubbing policies apply only to that tenant's IPs; all other tenants' traffic is completely unaffected. This solves the IDC's most painful problem: one bad actor ruining it for everyone.

3. Elastic wholesale scrubbing capacity

You do not need to build your own scrubbing infrastructure. Use AwayDDoS capacity on a wholesale basis and scale on demand — converting fixed costs into variable costs. Capacity is the combined power of our global nodes with no hard cap.

4. White-label protection services

Sell protection as your own product — we provide the backend capability while you own the customer relationship. This is a new revenue line that directly lifts ARPU.

Why IDCs partner with us

  • No blackholing — we will not null-route your entire IP block to protect other customers. Understand the risk of blackholing
  • Fixed pricing — predictable costs that make it easy to price your own product.
  • 7×24 expert operations — a dedicated counterpart during attacks, so you are not facing it alone.
  • Non-HTTP business supported — gaming, mail, and custom protocols covered as well.
  • Flexible engagement — from one-off emergency steering to long-term wholesale partnerships.

A typical partnership architecture

The most common model: the IDC uses BGP announcements to steer its IP block into AwayDDoS scrubbing centers, and clean traffic is tunneled back into the facility. Your network topology and customer configurations remain completely unchanged, yet protection is live.

For a full comparison of tunnel mode against other onboarding methods, see the deployment comparison. To explore white-label and wholesale options, contact us.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How does AwayDDoS defend against DDoS attacks?

AwayDDoS uses an innovative two-layer cleaning architecture. Layer one performs near-source scrubbing across global distributed nodes, diverting and diluting attack traffic within seconds. Layer two applies deep packet and behavior filtering at scrubbing centers to precisely block CC, SYN flood, UDP reflection and other attacks — only clean traffic reaches your origin.

Will I be charged extra during a large-scale attack?

No. AwayDDoS uses fixed pricing. Plan prices are transparent and never increase during attacks — unlike some cloud providers that keep charging during an attack, or even place your business into a "blackhole" if you don't pay. Your security cost stays fully predictable.

What is the two-layer cleaning architecture?

It is AwayDDoS's proprietary protection architecture. Layer one, near-source scrubbing, dilutes and cleans flood traffic at global edge nodes closest to the attack origin. Layer two, deep cleaning, filters traffic by protocol characteristics and business behavior at scrubbing centers. Together they ensure neither massive volumetric attacks nor precise application-layer attacks can reach your origin.

What kinds of business can AwayDDoS protect?

Websites, APIs, game servers, app backends, financial and e-commerce platforms — any business where uptime matters. No architecture changes are required: just point your DNS to AwayDDoS protection nodes and protection takes effect within minutes.

How long does it take to get started?

Typically you only need to switch your domain's DNS to AwayDDoS protection nodes — effective within minutes. A dedicated security consultant assists with onboarding and tuning one-on-one, backed by 7×24 attack response support.