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API Fortress VS AWS Shield

Compare API Fortress VS AWS Shield and see what are their differences

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API Fortress logo API Fortress

API performance, accuracy, and uptime testing. Without code.

AWS Shield logo AWS Shield

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. 
  • API Fortress Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-21
  • AWS Shield Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-21

API Fortress videos

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API Fortress - Full Walkthrough (5mins)

More videos:

  • Review - API Fortress - Test Creation Compared to Postman
  • Review - API Fortress - How We Compare to JMeter Testers

AWS Shield videos

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AWS Shield Overview

More videos:

  • Review - DNS DDoS mitigation using Amazon Route 53 and AWS Shield - February 2017 AWS Online Tech Talks

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to API Fortress and AWS Shield)

API Fortress

AWS Shield

API Tools
100 100%
API Tools
0% 0
Web Application Security
0 0%
Web Application Security
100% 100
Developer Tools
100 100%
Developer Tools
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
Monitoring Tools
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, AWS Shield seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

API Fortress mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of API Fortress yet. Tracking of API Fortress recommendations started around Mar 2021.

AWS Shield mentions (10)

  • 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 / 9 months 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing API Fortress and AWS Shield, you can also consider the following products

HttpMaster - HttpMaster is a professional software tool for testing and debugging HTTP applications, primarily aimed at REST API applications and web services.

CloudFlare DDoS Protection - Mitigate a DDoS attack of any size using Cloudflare's advanced DDoS protection including DNS Amplification, SYN/ACK, Layer 7 Attacks. Don't get ddos attacked!

Hoppscotch - Open source API development ecosystem

Imperva Cloud Application Security - Deploy your applications and data where you want. When you want. Imperva keeps them secure in the cloud, on premises, and in hybrid clouds.

Request inspector - Debug web hooks, http clients

Reblaze - Reblaze is a cloud-native web application and API protection solution

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