AWS Shield vs. Fastly DDoS Protection

AWS Shield

Fastly DDoS Protection

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Shield	Score 9.4 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 per month
Fastly DDoS Protection	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Fastly DDoS Protection is used to keep any application and API available and performant with an adaptive solution built to automatically and accurately mitigate DDoS at any scale.	$0 (free for the first 500,000 requests per month)

Pricing

AWS Shield

Fastly 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

for the first 500,000 requests: $0
per month
500 Million - 3 Billion: $.10
per month 10,000 Requests
100 Million - 500 Million: $.16
per month 10,000 Requests
50 Million - 100 Million: $.30
per month 10,000 Requests
10 Million - 50 Million: $.50
per month 10,000 Requests
0.5 Million - 10 Million Requests: $1.00
per month 10,000 Requests

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Shield	Fastly 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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Best Alternatives
	AWS Shield	Fastly DDoS Protection
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Akamai App & API Protector Score 8.0 out of 10	Akamai App & API Protector Score 8.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Testimonials
	AWS Shield	Fastly DDoS Protection
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