How to Enable DDoS Protection on a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Turn on detection and blocking of flooding attacks for a Vultr Cloud Compute instance via Console or Terraform.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection enables traffic monitoring and mitigates DDoS attacks against an instance to help keep the instance available. It activates a set of tools that detect and block network flooding attempts.

Follow this guide to enable DDoS protection on a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Console or Terraform.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
Navigate to the DDoS tab.
Click Enable DDoS Protection.
Click Enable DDoS Protection in the confirmation prompt to enable DDoS protection on your instance.

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