Q: What are AWS Shield's top competitors?

Cloudflare , Amazon GuardDuty , and AWS Trusted Advisor are common alternatives for AWS Shield.

Question 1

What is AWS Shield?

Accepted Answer

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. There are two tiers of AWS Shield - Standard and Advanced.

Question 2

What are AWS Shield's top competitors?

Accepted Answer

Cloudflare, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Trusted Advisor are common alternatives for AWS Shield.

Question 3

Who uses AWS Shield?

Accepted Answer

The most common users of AWS Shield are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

AWS ShieldPricing

AWS Shield Pricing Overview

Advanced

$3,000.00

Advanced

$3,000.00

Offerings

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