Shield

• AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.

• AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection.

Standard

Advanced

• AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service

• Safeguards web application running on AWS with always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations

• Helps to minimize application downtime and latency

• Two tiers –

  • Standard – no cost

  • Advanced - $3k USD per month and 1 year commitment

• Integrated with Amazon CloudFront (standard included by default)