Holiday Readiness 2026

Your holiday checklist has a new line item: AI agents

Last December, a “Night Before Christmas” DDoS campaign hit 205 million requests per second, and Cloudflare mitigated 47.1 million attacks across 2025 — more than double the prior year. Now there’s a new visitor at your door: not a shopper, but an AI assistant deciding whether to recommend you. Winning peak season means doing both — surviving the attacks, and showing up when AI agents go looking for products.

Survive the surge

Absorb multi-terabit DDoS floods at the edge and hold peak traffic in a branded waiting room, so checkout never crashes.

Sort good bots from bad

Block scalpers, scrapers, and credential stuffing while cryptographically verifying the trusted AI agents you want.

Get recommended by AI

Make your catalog discoverable and machine-readable so agents can find, trust, and recommend you first.

See where you stand before peak season hits.

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Take Cloudflare’s Agent Readiness Assessment to see if agents can find, read, and recommend your site — and where to fix the gaps first.

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Six moves to make before peak:

Absorb DDoS at the edge

Autonomous protection on a 500 Tbps network blocks multi-terabit floods in seconds.

DDoS Protection

Manage the surge

A branded virtual waiting room keeps checkout stable during flash sales and drops.

Waiting Room

Sort good bots from bad

ML bot scoring plus session analysis; verify trusted agents via Web Bot Auth.

Bot Management

Stop fraud without friction

Holiday-tuned rules catch abuse; Turnstile confirms real users without CAPTCHAs.

WAF + Turnstile

Secure APIs & checkout

Discover and protect every API and lock down client-side scripts against skimming.

API Shield + Page Shield

Show up for AI shoppers

Make your catalog discoverable and serve clean, machine-readable content.

Agent Readiness
Every year we see a consistent increase in threat intensity, but regular Cloudflare updates mitigate complex new threats as they come up.
Mattie Toia — VP of Infrastructure, Shopify