Which of the following can be useful for protecting cloud customers from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against another customer hosted in the same cloud?

The correct answer is A. Reservations. Reservations ensure that a minimum level of resources will always be available to a cloud customer for them to start and operate their services. In the event of a DoS attack against one customer, they can guarantee that the other customers will still be able to operate.

Submitted by zhang_li· Apr 18, 2026Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Security

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AReservations
BMeasured service
CLimits
DShares

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(16 responses)

A
94% (15)
D
6% (1)

Explanation

Reservations ensure that a minimum level of resources will always be available to a cloud customer for them to start and operate their services. In the event of a DoS attack against one customer, they can guarantee that the other customers will still be able to operate.

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#Resource Isolation#Multi-tenant Protection#DoS Mitigation#Cloud Resource Reservations

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