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AWS Shield

AWS Shield - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS Shield

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Your application is running smoothly, handling thousands of requests per second. Then suddenly, traffic spikes to millions of requests. Your servers are overwhelmed, your users can't connect, and you realize you're under a DDoS attack. What if AWS could automatically detect and block that malicious traffic before it ever reaches your application? That's exactly what AWS Shield does. Let's break it down. So what exactly is AWS Shield? It's a managed DDoS protection service designed to safeguard your applications running on AWS. Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, without requiring you to engage AWS support. AWS Shield comes in two tiers. First is Shield Standard, which is free and automatically enabled for all AWS customers. Second is Shield Advanced, which is a paid subscription, offering enhanced protection for your most critical applications.…

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