DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Top 5
Oct 8, 2025
The use case for AWS Shield is for DDoS attacks. Let me explain what a DDoS attack is in layman's terms. A distributed denial of service attack means that when people are trying to access an application, it can be delayed or throw an error, resulting in high latency. This distributed attack is used to disrupt applications, particularly to cause companies to lose business. If a company such as Amazon has competitors, they might use a DDoS attack to slow down traffic and hinder actual customers from making purchases. This will push potential customers to other websites, especially during high-traffic times such as Thanksgiving or Black Friday. AWS Shield serves as a shield against this specific attack, protecting customer environments from fake traffic that blocks genuine user interaction, much as spam mail clogs an inbox.
All our workload is focused on learning and analyzing various data. Unfortunately, I am not aware of the partnerships we have established. As per the information available to me, it is directly related to our customer. It primarily involves protecting our endpoint and ensuring we have proper security measures in place. It seems like no significant activities are occurring concerning our infrastructure parts, labeled as A and B, which indicate a need to further enhance our protective measures.
Security Officer at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5
Apr 3, 2024
AWS Shield protects us against denial-of-service attacks. As an online casino company, we are a prime target for hackers, and our servers are constantly exposed to potential threats.
We use the product for DDoS protection and Layer 7 attack protection. For simple WAF rules like IP blocking or allowing or disallowing headers and footers, we use AWS Shield.
The primary use case of the solution is firewall protection. Having a firewall is important for protecting our website from DDoS attacks. Just in case our services are running and we do get attacked, having a firewall can help keep our website alive.
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection.
What do you use it for? How do you use it?
The use case for AWS Shield is for DDoS attacks. Let me explain what a DDoS attack is in layman's terms. A distributed denial of service attack means that when people are trying to access an application, it can be delayed or throw an error, resulting in high latency. This distributed attack is used to disrupt applications, particularly to cause companies to lose business. If a company such as Amazon has competitors, they might use a DDoS attack to slow down traffic and hinder actual customers from making purchases. This will push potential customers to other websites, especially during high-traffic times such as Thanksgiving or Black Friday. AWS Shield serves as a shield against this specific attack, protecting customer environments from fake traffic that blocks genuine user interaction, much as spam mail clogs an inbox.
All our workload is focused on learning and analyzing various data. Unfortunately, I am not aware of the partnerships we have established. As per the information available to me, it is directly related to our customer. It primarily involves protecting our endpoint and ensuring we have proper security measures in place. It seems like no significant activities are occurring concerning our infrastructure parts, labeled as A and B, which indicate a need to further enhance our protective measures.
All our workloads are running on EKS. AWS Shield protects our infrastructure and endpoints.
AWS Shield protects us against denial-of-service attacks. As an online casino company, we are a prime target for hackers, and our servers are constantly exposed to potential threats.
We use the product for DDoS protection and Layer 7 attack protection. For simple WAF rules like IP blocking or allowing or disallowing headers and footers, we use AWS Shield.
The primary use case of the solution is firewall protection. Having a firewall is important for protecting our website from DDoS attacks. Just in case our services are running and we do get attacked, having a firewall can help keep our website alive.
Its use case can be anything from volume DDoS to lightweight web application framework capabilities. These are mostly the two areas where you see it.