HOW IT WORKS / ARCHITECTURE

Built to absorb. Built to scale.

CrownWall’s distributed edge architecture processes and filters traffic close to its source — reducing latency for clean requests and neutralising attacks before they reach your origin.

The further from your origin the better.

Every component of CrownWall’s security pipeline runs at the edge — geographically close to the users and attackers sending traffic. Clean requests travel a short path to your origin. Attacks are absorbed and discarded without ever placing load on your infrastructure.

This architecture makes DDoS mitigation effective at scale. A volumetric attack that would overwhelm most origin servers is distributed across CrownWall’s edge capacity, where the ratio of filtering capacity to attack volume is fundamentally different.

Edge filtering path

Attack traffic stops before origin load begins.

Requests are processed near their source, with clean traffic forwarded and hostile traffic discarded at the edge.

Users

nearby edge

CrownWall

filter + route

Origin

clean only

Key architecture principles.

The core design decisions that keep the platform resilient, fast, and operationally reliable.

Multi-node distribution

No single point of failure. Traffic is processed across multiple nodes, and your workload is automatically redistributed if any node becomes unavailable.

Asynchronous logging

All request logging happens out of the live request path. Logging latency never affects application response times. Logs are complete, not sampled.

Health-aware routing

Continuous health checks against all configured backends. Unhealthy origins are removed within seconds and restored automatically on recovery.

Horizontal scaling

Capacity scales with traffic volume. No appliances to size, no hardware limits to plan around, no performance degradation during attack events.

Available regions.

Clean global region coverage with options for sovereignty and multi-region deployments.

European Union

EU edge processing and logging region.

United Kingdom

UK region option for UK-specific sovereignty needs.

North America

North American processing options for regional workloads.

Asia-Pacific

APAC edge coverage for users and workloads across the region.

Need a specific sovereignty or multi-region deployment?

For specific sovereignty requirements or multi-region deployments, contact our team.