

Therefore, deployments across multiple AWS accounts within one Organization would pay only a single fee. The monthly fee is applicable per AWS Organization. This is in addition to the data transfer fees applicable to each protected resource. The Shield Advanced data transfer fee could be between $25 to $50 for 1 TB of data transferred within the initial 100 TB bracket, depending on the protected resource type. There is an additional data transfer fee, which varies depending on the protected resource type and the amount of data transferred (e.g., <100 TB, 400 TB, 500 TB). It also protects against extra AWS charges that could incur as a result of increased usage due to a DDoS attack affected customers can request credits.ĪWS Shield Advanced costs $3,000 per month. Additionally, Shield Advanced provides access to the AWS Shield response team, a 24/7 support group available for emergencies. Shield Advanced integrates with the AWS WAF service to configure specific protection rules. AWS Shield Advanced is available for those two services plus several others: Elastic Load Balancing, EC2, Elastic IPs and Global Accelerator.ĪWS Shield Standard offers protection against certain attacks but lacks flexibility for custom configurations. Shield is available in two presentations: Standard and Advanced.ĪWS Shield Standard is enabled by default in CloudFront and Route 53 at no extra cost. These attacks produce huge numbers of artificially generated requests to disrupt public applications. AWS Shield protects AWS components against DDoS attacks.
