What is Northstar DDoS Guard?
Northstar DDoS Guard is Northstar's managed security service for teams that need predictable throughput without babysitting infrastructure. Provisioning takes under a minute, billing is per use with no minimums, and the same API works in every region. The service drops into existing CI pipelines and Terraform modules without rewrites. Northstar operates it as a fully managed service: patching, capacity, and failover are handled upstream, while access controls and spend alerts stay in your hands.
Key features
- Role-based access control with audit logging
- Built-in daily snapshots with 35-day retention
- Live migration for planned maintenance, no downtime window
- Transparent egress rates published per region
- SOC 2 Type II audited controls on every plan tier
Typical use cases
- Data pipelines that need predictable throughput at a fixed cost
- Media and content workloads with heavy read traffic
- Disaster recovery sites kept warm without idle hardware costs
- Internal platforms serving dozens of product teams
Why Northstar?
Northstar publishes list prices for every region and never gates core capabilities behind enterprise-only tiers. Capacity is pre-provisioned, so the performance you benchmark in a sandbox is the performance you get in production. And because egress rates are flat, the bill at the end of the month matches the estimate you made at the start.
Getting started
Create an account, pick a region, and the default configuration is live in under a minute. The quickstart walks through your first deployment in about ten minutes, and the managed Terraform module turns the same setup into code you can review.
