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A company is operating a web application on Amazon EC2 instances, which are protected by an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Recently, the application has been subjected to a DoS attack where the logs indicate a consistent pattern of requests originating from a limited number of client IP addresses that frequently change. To mitigate this threat with minimal ongoing management, which strategy should the company implement to effectively block the malicious traffic?
A
Create an AWS WAF rate-based rule, and attach it to the ALB.
B
Update the security group associated with the ALB to block the attacking IP addresses.
C
Modify the network ACL of the ALB's subnet to deny access to the attacking client IP addresses.
D
Establish an AWS WAF rate-based rule, and integrate it with the security group of the EC2 instances.