Shield

AWS provides Shield Standard and Shield Advanced for protection against DDoS attacks.

Shield Standard (Free)

Shield Standard defends against the most common, frequently occurring network and transport layer DDoS attacks that target your website or applications.
While Shield Standard helps protect all AWS customers, you get particular benefit if you are using CloudFront and Route 53.
These services receive comprehensive availability protection against all known infrastructure (Layer 3 and 4) attacks.

For higher levels of protection against attacks, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced.
When you subscribe to Shield Advanced and add specific resources to be protected, Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on the resources.
As an Shield Advanced customer, you can contact the 24x7 AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) for assistance during a DDoS attack.
If you experience a DDoS attack that increases utilization of an Shield Advanced protected resource, you can request a credit for charges related to the increased utilization to the extent that it is not mitigated by Shield Advanced.
Shield Advanced includes intelligent DDoS attack detection and mitigation for not only for network layer (layer 3) and transport layer (layer 4) attacks, but also for application layer (layer 7) attacks.

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