AWS Shield

Protect your applications with managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
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HIPAA
API
UDP floods
GET floods
HTTP Get
DDoS
Description

Protect your applications with managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

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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. All AWS customers benefit from the automatic protections of AWS Shield Standard, at no additional charge. For higher levels of protection against attacks targeting your applications, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced.

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Static threshold DDoS protection (AWS)
Always-on network flow monitoring which inspects incoming traffic to AWS services and applies a combination of traffic signatures, anomaly algorithms, and other analysis techniques to detect malicious traffic in real-time
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Inline attack mitigation
Automated mitigation techniques are built-into AWS Shield Standard, giving underlying services protection against common, frequently occurring infrastructure attacks
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Detection based on traffic patterns (AWS)
AWS Shield Advanced provides customized detection based on traffic patterns to your protected Elastic IP address, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator or Amazon Route 53 resources.
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Health-based detection
Detect attacks impacting the health of your application more quickly and at lower traffic thresholds, improving the DDoS resiliency of your application and preventing false positive notifications
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AWS
Category
Security
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Security
Launch date
12/1/2016
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Last release date
12/1/2021
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The advanced version costs a monthly fee of $3,000 per month per organization.
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All AWS customers benefit from the automatic protections of AWS Shield Standard, at no additional charge
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