AWS] Shield is a protection service against DDoS.

What is [AWS] Shield?

AWS' managed DDoS protection solution service.

Used for high-level protection against attacks targeting applications running on Amazon CloudFront.

AWS Shield Standard. Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53, it provides comprehensive protection against all known attacks targeting your infrastructure (Layers 3 and 4).

For high-level protection against attacks targeting applications running on resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53 For a higher level of protection against attacks targeting your applications, you can use AWS Shield Advanced.

Reference Site

• AWS Shield