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Understand AWS Shield

Understand AWS Shield - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Understand AWS Shield

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- [Instructor] AWS Shield is a service that helps protect you from distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks. Shield is a transparent service that is automatically enabled in every AWS account. In its default state, it offers protection against distributed denial of service attacks. Shield's protection encompasses common DDoS attacks. This includes UDP and TCP SYN floods. If you want to mitigate HTTP GET or POST floods, you'll need to use WAF. One nice thing is that the protection offered by Shield is available at no additional charge. While Shield provides basic protection out of the box, enterprise customers have the option of purchasing Shield Advanced. As the name implies, it extends the protection that comes with Shield. Shield Advanced can help mitigate sophisticated attacks on specific AWS components you configure, such as an elastic IP address, an application or network load balancer, or a resource in Route 53. Another big advantage is that Web Application Firewall is…

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