AWS Shield vs. Azure DDoS Protection

AWS Shield

Azure DDoS Protection

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Shield	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency.	$0
Azure DDoS Protection	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Backed by the Microsoft global network, Azure DDoS Protection brings DDoS mitigation capacity to every Azure region. Combined with application design best practices, it provides enhanced DDoS mitigation features to defend against DDoS attacks.	$29.50 per month per resource

Pricing

AWS Shield

Azure DDoS Protection

Editions & Modules

AWS Shield Standard: $0
AWS Shield Advanced: $3,000.00
per month (annual commitment) AWS Shield Advanced Data Transfer Usage fees apply

Overage charges (more than 100 public IP resources): $29.50
per month per resource
Monthly charge per public IP resource protected: $199
per month
Monthly charge (includes protection for 100 public IP resources): 2,944
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Shield	Azure DDoS Protection
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

AWS Shield Advanced charges are in addition to the standard fees for Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and AWS Global Accelerator.

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Community Pulse
	AWS Shield	Azure DDoS Protection

User Ratings
	AWS Shield	Azure DDoS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Shield	Azure DDoS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	We have mostly used this for the migrations of applications to the cloud. It also includes strategic hybrid cloud arrangements. The kind of support and security it provides along with a very well and strategically placed process, it makes the first choice for not only us but any other competitors of ours as well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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