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AWS Shield

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10
Category
AWS Shield
8.5 /10

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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AWS Shield Ratings

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.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

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.

+96 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?

0% Negative
0% Neutral
100% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Altruistic

Feature Ratings

Average 89

Web Application Protection

100

Resource Scaling

94

Threat Analytics

91

Attack Notifications

90

SIEM Integration

89

IP Address Quarantine/Blacklist

89

Intelligent Defense Stack

88

Autonomous Mitigation

87

Packet Inspection

87

Machine Learning

63

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 86

Quality of Features

89

Business Value Created

87

Ease of Implementation

87

Breadth of Features

87

Usability and Intuitiveness

86

Vendor Support

86

Ease of IT Administration

85

Availability and Quality of Training

85

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

84

Ease of Customization

84

Ease of Data Integration

82

AWS Shield Reviews

Mahammad K.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Communications
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2024

Easy to use shield

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

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
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2024

Great product with various DDOS threat protection

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

Okwesirieze A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Not for Profit
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2025

Because Downtime is too expensive

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Shield from other similar products?

For organization that run their workloads on AWS, it is best used and it is native and deeply integrated protection with AWS. Most vendors charge for basic DDoS protection but AWS shield comes free for anyone using Cloudfront, Route53, and ALB/NLB

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of this product is that if a DDoS attack causes auto-scaling spikes or high bandwidth usage, AWS credits back the cost. Other loved aspects are: Shield standards works automatically. You don't need DNS changes. No firewall deployment No tunnelling/proxying No manual tuning for basic DDoS attacks

What do you dislike most about this product?

The advanced features are so expensive which is $3000/month/account which isn't great for startups and small companies.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would say you should understand the cost and tradeoffs, especially for advanced

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Efficient Service
  • Security Protects
  • Effective Service