AWS Shield Reviews and details

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• Understanding AWS Regions and Availability Zones: A Guide for Beginners

  AWS CloudFront is the star of the show here. It caches static content (like media, scripts, and images) to ensure fast, reliable delivery. Other AWS services that run at the edge include Route 53 for DNS routing, Shield and WAF for security, and even Lambda via Lambda@Edge — giving you the ability to run serverless logic closer to the user. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• AWS Serverless Security: Preventing HTTP Flood DDoS Attack

  In the diagram below, we can see where the AWS WAF sits in our serverless architecture. Basically, it’s our shield in front of all requests coming into our system. But, don’t confuse this service with AWS Shield (lol, AWS has everything). - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Protect nginx ingress with AWS WAF and AWS Shield

  AWS Shield is primarily used to protect from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It automatically detects threats to the environment. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Reasonably priced EU hosting with DDoS filtering?

  OVH offers more than a firewall. They provide all of their OVHCloud custoemrs with anti-DDoS services that will block most attacks automatically at no additonal charge. https://us.ovhcloud.com/security/anti-ddos/ AWS offers their Shield product, although your requirement of "reasonably priced" may exclude AWS in general https://aws.amazon.com/shield/ . Cloudflare Spectrum can protect TCP/UDP services including... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Enigma cold war IP global banning people trying to join their server when full.

  You just dont hear bout much these days as a consumer since most games go FULL GREED (aka Live Service) and do not let you host your own server. Big companies use AWS etc and have ways to deal with this sort of thing. Source: about 2 years ago

• Tutorials for secure backend development and production pipelines?

  Hi, I went briefly through your post, and can add that aws has a Shield service, that is designed to tackle ddos attacks... Hope it helps somehow :) Https://aws.amazon.com/shield/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Stupid Question: Can DDoS attack or some other attack mess up EC2 Auto Scaling ?

  There's a whole service just for protecting against DDoS. Source: over 2 years ago

• WAF Rate limiting solution for different IPs

  Are you sure AWS Shield doesn't fit this use case? It sounds more like a DDoS. Source: over 2 years ago

• Well-Architected Framework Review - Part III reliability

  For the network topology, we recommend using AWS DNS service Route53 and Cloudfront. These services are protected by default in the DDoS protection service AWS Shield. Furthermore, we also recommend the usage of AWS Transit Gateway if we hear that the network is planned to be expanded or there is a multiple VPN and Direct Connect connection planned. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• AWS Security is very complicated... or very simple - it's all how you architect it!

  For network protection, clearly define and separate publicly facing services from internal services. Your public access points are some of your most vulnerable spots - make sure to properly secure all paths and routes in. AWS offers many forward facing services to offer you additional protection, amongst them Amazon Route53 (it's not just to host your domain names, it's a lot more!), Amazon CloudFront, Elastic... - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• Protecting APIs with custom headers in CloudFront

  It integrates with Shield Standard and WAF, and it won't let malicious traffic reach the origin because it captures it at the adge. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• How serverless helps keep your WordPress site secure

  Ymir uses CloudFront to do page caching. If you also use CloudFront this way, you get some DDOS protection for free through AWS Shield. This will protect you against infrastructure layer attacks, but not application layers. (Also known as layer 7.) To protect against those, you need a WAF. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago

• What is the best practice for combatting ddos?

  My dudes, is nobody mentioning AWS Shield? https://aws.amazon.com/shield/. Source: about 4 years ago