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Auto-Scale Load Balancer Capacity

CCC.LB.CN02 · Resource

Expand load-balancer capacity to maintain availability during traffic spikes.

Related Capabilities

IDTitleDescription
CCC.Core.CP04Transaction Rate LimitsThe service can throttle, delay, or reject excess requests when transactions exceed a user-specified rate limit, and always provides industry-standard throughput up to that limit.
CCC.LB.CP22Rate Limiting / ThrottlingAbility to limit the number of requests per second per client. This ensures that no single client or user overloads the backend servers, distributing requests fairly across multiple instances.

Related Threats

IDTitleDescription
CCC.LB.TH01Unrestricted Request Traffic Overwhelms Downstream ServicesAbsence of filtering or rate limiting permits malicious traffic to overload downstream services and facilitates brute-force activity.

Assessment Requirements

IDTextApplicability
CCC.LB.CN02.AR01When concurrent connections reach 80 percent of capacity, the autoscaling group MUST add at least one instance within five minutes.tlp-green, tlp-amber, tlp-red

Guideline Mappings

FrameworkIDRemarks
NIST-CSFID.BE-5Resilience requirements are established
NIST_800_53CP-10System recovery and reconstitution