Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS review
Broad network and application-layer DDoS protection for Alibaba Cloud workloads.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS is a cloud security product family for businesses protecting public IP assets, cloud workloads, domains, ports, websites, games, finance systems, and e-commerce services. It combines free Anti-DDoS Basic protection with paid Anti-DDoS Native and Anti-DDoS Proxy options. The product supports web and API environments, with protection spanning network, transport, and application layers depending on the selected variant.
Pricing is structured around two fixed monthly Anti-DDoS Proxy plans. Anti-DDoS Proxy Insurance costs $1,580 per instance per month and includes two advanced mitigation sessions per month, scrubbing-center protection, and network-, transport-, and application-layer protection. Anti-DDoS Proxy Unlimited costs $4,210 per instance per month and includes unlimited advanced mitigation sessions, along with the same scrubbing-center and multi-layer protection. Anti-DDoS Basic provides free network- and transport-layer protection for selected Alibaba Cloud public-IP services. Anti-DDoS Native protects without changing business IPs and also uses pay-as-you-go pricing with separate feature, protected-IP, and traffic charges.
Its strongest fit is organizations already operating across Alibaba Cloud’s ecosystem. Integrations include Elastic Compute Service, Server Load Balancer, Elastic IP, NAT Gateway, IPv6 Gateway, Simple Application Server, Web Application Firewall, Global Accelerator, Anycast EIP, and CloudMonitor. Anti-DDoS Proxy uses DNS-based traffic redirection, while global scrubbing centers, custom scrubbing thresholds, mitigation policies, attack-event monitoring, and traffic analysis support broader operational control. Choose it when Alibaba Cloud alignment and coverage across multiple attack layers matter. It is less suitable for teams seeking a simple standalone protection product or a single pricing model across all deployment options.
Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free Basic protection covers selected Alibaba Cloud public-IP services
- Network, transport, and application-layer attack mitigation
- Global scrubbing centers and broad Alibaba Cloud integrations
- Where it doesn't
- Free protection applies only to selected Alibaba Cloud services
- Proxy plans start at $1,580 per instance per month
- Choosing between Basic, Native, and Proxy adds planning overhead
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