AWS Shield Reviews

Name: AWS Shield
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.3 (6 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

6 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is AWS Shield?

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.

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AWS Shield is the #6 ranked solution in top Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Shield an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. AWS Shield is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: AWS Shield vs Cloudflare. AWS Shield is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Featured reviews

SteveNg

Head of Strategic Alliances at Quantum Security

Ultimately, the cost of the solution goes up as we add features, but I believe over time AWS has been adding more frequently asked features. Depending on the website, if our website has more transactions, more sensitive information, and more value, then, of course, we need more features. For us, we only require basic information, a website, some custom consumer, end user, and front-facing purposes. We end up having to pay extra for features that AWS adds that we don't need. The pricing of the solution can be improved.

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Manikandan-R

Senior Project Manager at Synopsys Inc

The product is quite good. It would be good if I could use AI for natural language processing. I could ask the AI about the historical data to see patterns. If I see a pattern, I could ask the AI to find similar patterns over the previous six months. It will be helpful to get such details on the console instead of checking the graph and logs to see the patterns manually. If we already use AWS, we do not have to look for an external tool to protect our infrastructure. I recommend the tool for startups. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Prasad Mehta

Senior Security Specialist at Westpac Bank

The product is unsuitable for organizations that want to utilize WAF features and have critical applications to finetune security policies to allow or disallow various parameters and configurations. The product doesn’t provide a view of our applications' traffic or what is being blocked. There is no custom reporting or dashboard view. There are very minimal uses that we can get from the product. Other WAF tools give us a lot of insights into our traffic and options to finetune and configure firewall policies. The product should give users more flexibility to customize their security policies according to their requirements. Currently, the solution has high-level services like Load Balancer and CDN. The tool could extend the services to low-level services like servers and databases. Sometimes the customer does not want the standard or recommended path given by AWS, like CDN or ALB. Usually, the customers want to use their own Load Balancer and CDN solution. The tool notifies us about the final event, but there is no insight into the event. For example, if we have a DDoS alert, it only gives us five IPs or locations. It is enough for new users. However, if a customer wants more details, it is not available in the product.

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AWS Shield mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of AWS Shield in the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection category stands at 5.8%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The product is easy to use."
"We have integrated the tool with Active Directory. The most important feature is that it's transparent and doesn't degrade the performance of our solution. Additionally, it's easy to configure, which is crucial for us. It's easy to use and set up and stops attacks on our servers. We haven't encountered any attack problems because the solution stops them in real-time. AWS Shield specifically focuses on defending against denial-of-service attacks, making it a great solution for that type of threat."
"The product has a good mechanism to analyze trends and trigger events."

Room for Improvement

"The time taken to detect anomalies must be reduced."
"The product needs to improve its logs and reports to make it read better."
"The product should give users more flexibility to customize their security policies according to their requirements."