AWS Shield will be on by default to protect developers from these attacks. With this, Amazon is now in competition with the likes of Cloudflare and the DDoS protection services from major ...

Frightened of your site getting blown off the internet with a distributed denial of service attack? Amazon can protect you with AWS Shield.

Protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is now activated in Amazon Web Services (AWS) by default, CTO Werner Vogels announced today at Amazon re:Invent. The new service is ...

When AWS detects attacks, “we will work together with DDoS protection teams to create the right level of protection using WAF [web application firewall].

The higher level, called AWS Shield Advance, provides additional DDoS protection for volumetric attacks including mitigation at the application & network layers.

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 ...

DDoS Protection Vendors Improve Their Tools In light of the prevalence of application-layer attacks, leading DDoS protection solutions like Cloudflare, Imperva, Akamai, as well as cloud computing ...