SHEILD
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.
All AWS customers benefit from the automatic
protections of AWS Shield Standard, at no additional charge. AWS Shield Standard
defends against most common, frequently occurring network and transport layer DDoS attacks that target your web site or applications.
When you use AWS Shield Standard with Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53,
you receive comprehensive availability protection against all known
infrastructure (Layer 3 and 4) attacks.