AWS Shield

RATING:

4.3

(3)
Overview

About AWS Shield

AWS Shield is a vulnerability management solution that helps businesses streamline processes related to inline attack mitigation, network flow monitoring, event response, and more from within a unified platform. It allows staff members to utilize the built-in console and real-time notifications to gain visibility into correct and prior DDoS attacks. AWS Shield's firewall manager enables team members to automatically configure policies covering multiple accounts and audit accounts to identify new and unprotected accounts. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via FAQs, documentation, email, and other online measures.

AWS Shield Pricing

Please contact Amazon Web Services directly for pricing details.

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Not Available

AWS Shield event mitigation

AWS Shield Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for AWS Shield

3 Reviews

Anmol

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

AWS Shield

PROS

I used this service for 2 years for DDOS protection because many times AWS Waf is not able to stop DDOS attack It also reduces the pricing of CPU utilization of instances that increase from attack

CONS

The pricing is very high as compared to other DDOS protection tools

Sakthi

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Best DDOS protection tool in AWS Services

Good service for website security in AWS

PROS

AWS Shield Standard using for our website to secure from DDOS attacks and protect from web vulnerabilities using web application firewall service. Its protect our website goes down due to attacks.

CONS

Based on our usage AWS Shield help and secure our websites for specific services only. Need to secure more services in AWS using shield.

Franco

Internet, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed February 2024

AWS Shield developer

PROS

easy to use since it is detailed in the manual as well as video descriptions

CONS

AWS has the best ways to use costs/time in its tools, so it's easy to shut down systems during downtime.