
What is AWS Shield?
AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield Advanced is a tailored protection program that identifies threats using exabyte-scale detection to aggregate data across AWS.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
91 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 97%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 92%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 98%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 98%
- Service Experience:
- 95%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+97 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love AWS Shield?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Altruistic
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Resource Scaling
Threat Analytics
SIEM Integration
Attack Notifications
IP Address Quarantine/Blacklist
Packet Inspection
Autonomous Mitigation
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Ease of Data Integration
AWS Shield Reviews

Mahammad K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2024
Easy to use shield
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Shield from other similar products?
Cost is better
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It’s automatic
What do you dislike most about this product?
I don’t have any
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Strongly recommended
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Sahil Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2024
Great product with various DDOS threat protection
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Shield from other similar products?
As someone who is using AWS shield it automatically provided to the customer without any additional cost , which provides basic DDOS protection for applications used on AWS and ease of integration
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ease of integration and no additional cost for those Using AWS Cloud
What do you dislike most about this product?
The additional charges for the Advanced shield
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazing product with ease of integration, various benefits such as traffic monitoring, DDOS mitigation, global threat dashboards and inclusion of AWS waf
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Charan Naidu B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2024
Makes us free from unwanted DDoS attacks.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Shield from other similar products?
AWS Shield is a DDoS protect service provided by AWS to protect the applications running in AWS Cloud from malicious attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service, UDP flood attacks and SYN flood attacks without any additional costs. We need to add additional application to enable such functions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect of the product is it's basic version is free of cost. It provides the DDoS services to all our applications hosted in AWS with no additional cost. It provides all essential cyber security features in basic itself. However Shield Advance is not free of cost. There'll be additional cost for using AWS Shield Advance which provides additional security features.
What do you dislike most about this product?
No dislikes for this amazing service from AWS. Although few enhancements would be much appreciated.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you host applications in AWS Cloud, just use this service. Configure shield with all required configurations.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing