CTD304: Dow Jones & Wall Street Journal's journey to manage traffic spikes while mitigating DDoS & application layer threats

Dow Jones, which produces the Wall Street Journal, engaged AWS Enterprise Support to plan for peak website usage during the United States presidential election in 2016. This preparation ensured that the Wall Street Journal website could scale to meet peak demands as election returns came in. They have since expanded their use of AWS services, including Lambda@Edge, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield.