
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
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+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
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
AWS Shield Reviews

Gaurav K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2023
Easy to use, but a bit pricey
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Shield from other similar products?
More Reliabile Better security features like Automatic L7 injection using advanced shield post attack report generation Instant rule updates
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Dashboarding reporting after attack
What do you dislike most about this product?
A bit costly after shield advanced
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
L7/L4 automatic detection for bot attack
Pros
- Transparent
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Includes Product Enhancements

Avleen K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2023
Fantastic Product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Shield from other similar products?
IP Level quarrantines Advanced Shield for advanced features like 24/7 waf and aws firewall manager to check cost when spike in requests Cool dashboarding features like token acquisition
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Advanced shield
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not as such as this is one of the best product
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use advanced shield to enable waf for 24/7 and cost operations when spike happens
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
Cons
- Less Respectful

Hatim E.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2023
Fantastic product, really
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Shield from other similar products?
The integration with AWS services such as CouldFront, Route 53, WAF is just amazing, no competitor can give that
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The customization against DDoS risks is just amazing and easy to use.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The price like all AWS products
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you can afford it, then it's a game changer
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity