November 2026 Summaries

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Preparing an Azion cache for Black Friday can reduce origin load and latency more effectively than simply adding servers by caching shared content such as storefronts, category and product pages, and static assets, while keeping personalized cart, checkout, and login traffic uncached. The guidance recommends predictable override TTLs, with longer lifetimes for static files and shorter lifetimes for pages with changing prices, alongside short browser TTLs and Application Accelerator for microcaching needs. Tiered Cache reduces repeated origin requests across data centers, while Stale Cache can serve expired content temporarily during origin failures. Cache warming with the Azion CLI can populate content before demand peaks, particularly when timed according to TTLs and performed during low-traffic periods. Price changes should use targeted Real-Time Purge operations, purging the Tiered Cache layer before the main cache and then warming updated pages, while monitoring Edge Offload, saved requests, cache misses, and tiered-cache metrics helps identify configuration gaps and measure how much traffic avoids the origin.

Azion distinguishes Firewall as a reusable policy resource that contains ordered Rules Engine rules and security modules, while WAF is a layer 7 module that inspects HTTP requests for eight threat families, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting, only when invoked by a firewall rule. WAAP describes the combined protections of WAF, bot management, API protection, and DDoS mitigation, which Azion implements through a single firewall policy rather than separate tools and consoles. Requests first receive always-on DDoS protection, then pass through configured firewall rules in sequence, which can use Network Lists, WAF, Bot Manager, rate limiting, Deny, Drop, and custom responses; blocking rules prevent traffic from reaching the origin. Shared WAF rule sets and Network Lists can be reused across applications and configured through code-based deployment tools such as APIs, Terraform, and the CLI. Real-Time Events supports investigation of blocked requests using request IDs, WAF scores and matches, status codes, and optional rule stack traces, while logging mode, exceptions, and sensitivity settings enable policy tuning before or alongside blocking enforcement.

E-commerce bot protection for Black Friday and other sales peaks should focus on high-risk paths such as login, sign-up, add-to-cart, checkout, and public APIs, where scalping, credential stuffing, card testing, and price or inventory scraping can create financial and customer-experience losses. Azion’s approach combines Bot Manager, WAF, ALTCHA challenges, API token validation, and rate limiting, with responses tailored to each path: challenged logins, blocked checkout abuse, delayed cart activity to reduce scalpers’ speed advantage, and API denial for suspicious automated clients. Bot Manager assigns scores from multiple behavioral and reputation signals rather than making binary decisions, while allowing new clients a temporary evaluation period. The recommended process begins at least three weeks before an event with observation-only logging to establish normal traffic patterns, followed by threshold calibration and WAF exception tuning, gradual enforcement by path, and peak-time monitoring rather than policy changes. Effectiveness is assessed through blocked automated attempts, challenge completion rates as an indicator of possible false positives, and suspicious traffic that still reaches the application, with reporting sent to SIEM and fraud-analysis tools for ongoing review.

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