Shield

• Standard

  • Free service that protects all AWS customers on ELB, CloudFront or Route53.

  • Protects against SYN/UDP floods, reflection attacks, and other Layer 3 / Layer 4 attacks.

• Advanced

  • Shield Advanced provides enhanced protection for your application running behind ELB, CloudFront or Route53 against larger and more sophisticated attacks. $3000 / month.

  • Always-on, flow-based monitoring of network traffic and active application monitoring to provide near real-time notifications of DDoS attacks.

  • DDoS Response Team (DRT) to manage and mitigate DDoS attacks.

  • Protects your AWS bill against higher fees due to ELB, CloudFront and Route53 usage spikes during DDoS.