Security · Difficulty 2 of 5 · 15 min
Storefront slows down under a traffic surge
A traffic spike is slowing the storefront down. A handful of clients send far more requests than anything seen before and nothing holds them back, although the organisation publishes an approved ceiling for exactly this. Bring the storefront back under that ceiling.
Where the symptom shows: Elastic Load Balancing
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