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You recently reviewed the user behavior for your main application, which uses an external global Application Load Balancer, and found that the backend servers were overloaded due to erratic spikes in
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Submitted by packet_pusher· Apr 18, 2026Implementing network security
Question
You recently reviewed the user behavior for your main application, which uses an external global Application Load Balancer, and found that the backend servers were overloaded due to erratic spikes in the rate of client requests. You need to limit the concurrent sessions and return an HTTP 429 Too Many Requests response back to the client while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Options
- ACreate a Cloud Armor security policy, and associate the policy with the load balancer. Configure
- BConfigure the load balancer to accept only the defined amount of requests per client IP address,
- CCreate a Cloud Armor security policy, and apply the predefined Open Worldwide Security
- DConfigure a VM with Linux, implement the rate limit through iptables, and use a firewall rule to
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#Cloud Armor#Rate Limiting#HTTP 429#Application Load Balancer