AWS Shield is aligned with the web application firewall (WAF), and they work seamlessly together, primarily working with Elastic Load Balancer, CloudFront, and Route 53 for CDN and DNS services protection.
AWS Shield integrates seamlessly with AWS services, offering real-time detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks. It ensures server protection without degrading performance, making it ideal for businesses. Scalable for varying traffic, it works with WAF, Elastic Load Balancer, CloudFront, and Route 53. Management demands engineering effort and incurs additional charges. Improvements are needed for anomaly detection, and it provides limited protection against common network attacks. It lacks built-in health check functionality.
