Sheild (DDOS Protection)

What is DDOS

WAF vs Sheild

Levels of Protection

Level Explanation
Standard It automatically protects all AWS customers at no cost.
This uses variety of analysis techniques to detect malicious traffic in real time and automatically mitigates it.
Advanced (Paid Service) Provides detailed attack diagnostics, detects and mitigate sophisticated DDoS attacks
It integrates with other services eg(Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing).
We can integrate AWS Shield with AWS WAF by writing custom rules to mitigate complex DDoS attacks.