# Operational techniques
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 The mitigation techniques in this paper help you architect applications that are inherently resilient against DDoS attacks. In many cases, it's also useful to know when a DDoS attack is targeting your application so you can take mitigation steps. This section discusses best practices for gaining visibility into abnormal behavior, alerting and automation, managing protection at scale, and engaging AWS for additional support. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Whitepapers. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query whitepapers` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).