Shield

DDoS prevention service

Shiel Standard

Free service that is automatically activated

  • Provides protection from attacks such as SYN/UDP floods, reflection attacks and other L3-4 attacks

Shield Advanced

Optional DDoS mitigation service ($3000 per month per organization)

  • Protect against more sophisticated attack on EC2, ELB, CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator and Route 53
  • 24/7 access to AWS DDoS response team
  • Protect against higher fees during usage spikes due to DDoS

WAF

Layer 7 protection against common web vulnerabilities

Deploy on:

  • Application Load Balancer
  • API Gateway
  • CloudFront
  • AppSync GraphQL API
  • Cognito User Pool

You can define Web ACL Rules:

  • IP Set: up to 10k IP
  • HTTP hearders, body, URI strings
  • Size constraints, geo-match
  • Rate-based rules - DDoS protection

Firewall Manager

Manage rules in all accounts of an AWS Organization. Create common set of security rules:

  • WAF rules, shield advanced, security groups, Network Firewall, Route 53 firewall etc

Network Firewall

Network Firewall

Protect your entire VPC

  • From Layer 3 to 7
  • Any direction, you can inspect
    • VPC to VPC
    • Ingress, egress
    • Direct Connect, S2S VPN
  • Internally, Network firewall uses the AWS Gateway Load Balancer
  • Can be managed via Firewall Manager

 AWS Network Firewall provides some advantages over NACLs alone. NACLs provide only stateless packet filtering, whereas AWS Network Firewall provides web filtering, intrusion detection and prevention, stateless and stateful packet filtering, and centralized visibility of all your traffic.

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