Azure DDoS Testing
Validate your system’s DDoS protection on Azure
Red Button is a Microsoft-approved DDoS simulation partner for Azure DDoS Protection customers.
Validate Your Azure DDoS Resilience –
Under Real Attack Conditions
Simulate real-world, multi-vector DDoS attacks across your Azure architecture – from Azure Front Door and DDoS Protection to Application Gateway, NSGs, and AKS workloads – to prove your defenses actually work.
Authorized Azure DDoS Testing
As a Microsoft-authorized DDoS testing partner, we can safely launch real-world DDoS attack simulations against your Azure environment – without requiring prior approval or a support ticket with Microsoft.
Unlike generic stress-testing tools that operate below meaningful thresholds or risk violating Azure’s acceptable use policy, our authorized status enables:
- Realistic attack simulations that reflect actual threat actors
- Azure-specific traffic volumes and protocol patterns calibrated to your resource tiers
- Safe execution in production environments, with precision controls to prevent unintended impact
Proven Experience Across Various Azure Architectures
We have conducted hundreds of DDoS simulations on Azure, building deep technical expertise across cloud-native, hybrid, and Azure Arc-connected environments.
Our focus is on how critical components – such as Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Firewall, and Azure API Management – behave under extreme load, and how effectively they are protected by available mitigation controls. This hands-on experience enables us to precisely identify bottlenecks and recommend targeted improvements based on the specific services and SKUs in use.
Whether you operate a single-region web application or a globally distributed, multi-hub architecture using Azure Virtual WAN, we ensure every layer of your Azure environment is tested against the full spectrum of threats, from volumetric floods to sophisticated application-layer attacks.
Tailored Simulations Designed Around Your Architecture
Our simulations are purpose-built to validate the effectiveness of your specific architecture and mitigation layers.
Whether you’re running a standard Azure stack (Azure Front Door → Application Gateway → AKS/App Service) or a more complex flow (Azure Front Door → Azure API Management → Internal Load Balancer → AKS → on-prem via ExpressRoute), we design scenarios that directly stress the protections in place across each component, covering network, protocol, and application-layer attack vectors.
By uncovering how each element behaves under pressure, including how Azure DDoS Protection Standard’s adaptive tuning responds to your traffic baseline, we identify the exact failure points and highlight the “weak links” unique to your architecture, so you can prioritize the improvements that matter most.
Actionable Recommendations Across Your Azure Stack
Our analysis goes beyond identifying weaknesses-we focus on delivering actionable recommendations. Following each simulation, we provide in-depth technical guidance on fine-tuning Azure Front Door WAF policies, hardening Application Gateway WAF rule sets, optimizing DDoS protection thresholds, and tightening Network Security Group (NSG) and Azure Policy configurations.
Drawing on extensive gap analysis experience, we help you implement Azure DDoS best practices to ensure your protection layers effectively filter malicious traffic while maintaining low-latency access for legitimate users.
FAQ
Several reasons. DDoS Protection Standard’s adaptive tuning is calibrated against your traffic baseline, but that baseline must be validated under actual attack conditions to confirm the thresholds are correct. In addition, Microsoft covers network-layer (L3/L4) attacks for resources enrolled in the plan, but application-layer (L7) defense remains your responsibility. Rate limiting, WAF rule tuning on Application Gateway, and IDPS policy configuration on Azure Firewall-these are controls only you can implement and validate. Without testing, you cannot confirm they hold under realistic attack volumes.
No. As an authorized partner, Red Button can carry out DDoS simulations against your Azure environment without notifying the Microsoft team or filing a support case. This simplifies scheduling, including last-minute testing requirements.
Yes. Our methodology uses a Precision Testing approach. We start at low volume and ramp up incrementally while monitoring your Azure Monitor metrics, Application Insights telemetry, and resource health signals in real time. We maintain an emergency stop capability to halt the simulation instantly if it approaches a critical threshold, ensuring we identify your breaking point without causing actual downtime for your users.
We can simulate attacks against any public IP resource protected by Azure DDoS Protection Standard. We also specialize in testing complex hybrid paths involving AKS ingress controllers and on-premises connectivity via ExpressRoute or VPN Gateway.
You receive a comprehensive technical report that includes your DDoS Resilience Score (DRS), a detailed breakdown of identified gaps per resource and traffic path, and an actionable remediation roadmap. We provide specific configuration recommendations for your WAF policies, DDoS Protection Standard diagnostic settings, NSG rules, and autoscale configurations, so all identified vulnerabilities have a clear remediation path.
No. Azure DDoS Protection Standard covers your infrastructure at the network layer – it doesn’t tell you how your specific application, WAF rules, and origin configuration behave once real attack traffic hits them. Two organizations on the same Azure tier can have very different outcomes: one blocks the traffic cleanly, the other has a rate-limit rule that never fires or an origin IP reachable outside the CDN. Testing is what tells you which one you are. See DDoS Testing vs. DDoS Protection for the full breakdown of what Azure protects and what stays your responsibility.
Yes. Red Button is an approved DDoS test partner for both AWS and Microsoft Azure, and also tests on-premises and hybrid deployments. Running the same team and methodology across all three environments gets you one comparable resilience picture instead of three separate vendor reports with different scoring, different attack libraries, and different definitions of a pass.
The test is scoped to your actual delivery path – Azure Front Door (or another CDN) in front of Application Gateway, WAF, and your origin. We validate that edge mitigation triggers correctly, that WAF and rate-limit rules hold under load, and that the origin itself isn’t reachable by going around the CDN, which is one of the most common gaps we find in Azure deployments.
Enable DDoS Protection metrics and diagnostic logging for every public IP included in the test. At minimum, configure an alert for the “Under DDoS attack or not” metric and route diagnostic data to Log Analytics so you can review DDoS protection notifications, mitigation reports and mitigation flow logs before the test window opens.
Dashboards need to be open and actively watched for the duration of the test, not reviewed after it ends – covering WAF, Application Gateway and Load Balancer telemetry, and Application Insights, alongside the DDoS Protection metrics enabled beforehand, for every public IP in scope. Red Button also runs its own external availability monitoring in parallel and coordinates each attack vector’s start and stop through a shared communications channel with your team, so what you see on screen and what’s being sent line up in real time.