Shield

• Shield Standard:

  • At no additional charge for all AWS customers.

  • Defends against most common and frequent network and transport layer DDoS attacks.

  • Get particular benefit if you are using CloudFront and Route 53.

  • Receive comprehensive availability protection against all known infrastructure (Layer 3 and Layer 4) attacks.

• Shield Advanced:

  • Paid service - Costs $3000 per month.

  • Requires a 1-year subscription commitment.

  • Provides additional protections for internet-facing applications running on:

    • Elastic Compute (EC2).

    • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).

    • CloudFront.

    • Global Accelerator.

    • Route 53.

  • Available to all customers - However, to contact the DDoS Response Team customers will need the Enterprise or Business Support levels of AWS Premium Support.