AWS Shield

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on Amazon Web Services. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations to protect against common and sophisticated DDoS attacks, offering two tiers: Standard and…

Key facts

First appeared: 2016
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS Shield was created to provide scalable and automated protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for applications hosted on the AWS cloud. Before Shield, customers often had to implement their own costly and complex DDoS mitigation strategies, which struggled to keep up with the increasing scale and sophistication of attacks, or rely on third-party solutions that lacked native integration with AWS infrastructure.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

Related technologies

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Amazon EC2
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Amazon Route 53
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Global Accelerator

Notable users

Many Fortune 500 companies utilizing AWS
Airbnb
Capital One
Twitch
Netflix
Samsung