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# Google Cloud Armor documentation

[Read product documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/armor/docs/cloud-armor-overview)

Google Cloud Armor helps protect your infrastructure and applications from Layer 3/Layer 4 network or protocol-based volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, volumetric Layer 7 attacks, and other targeted application attacks. It leverages Google's global network and distributed infrastructure to detect and absorb attacks and filter traffic through user-configurable security policies at the edge of Google's network, far upstream of your workloads. 

[Go to the Google Cloud Armor product page for more.](https://cloud.google.com/security/products/armor/)

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##  Documentation resources 

Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues. 

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### Guides

  * [ Google Cloud Armor security policy overview ](/armor/docs/security-policy-overview)

  * [ Configuring security policies ](/armor/docs/configure-security-policies)

  * [ Tuning WAF rules ](/armor/docs/rule-tuning)

  * [ Using Cloud Armor Enterprise ](/armor/docs/armor-enterprise-using)

  * [ Adaptive Protection overview ](/armor/docs/adaptive-protection-overview)




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### Reference and monitoring

  * [ Custom rules language reference ](/armor/docs/rules-language-reference)

  * [ APIs and references ](/armor/docs/apis)

  * [ Monitoring security policies ](/armor/docs/monitoring)

  * [ Audit logging ](/armor/docs/audit-logging)




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### Resources

  * [ Pricing ](/armor/pricing)

  * [ Quotas and limits ](/armor/quotas)

  * [ Troubleshooting issues ](/armor/docs/troubleshooting)

  * [ Release notes ](/armor/docs/release-notes)

  * [ Getting support ](/armor/docs/getting-support)

  * [ Billing questions ](/armor/docs/billing-questions)

  * [ Service Level Agreement ](/armor/sla)




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