# AWS Shield

## Essentials

* Standard (network and transport layer)
  * Free and included!
  * Automatic protection of 96% of layer 3/4 attacks
  * SYN/UDP floods
  * Reflection Attacks
  * Malformed TCP
* Advanced (application layer)
  * More Advanced DDOS protection
  * Larger Attacks
  * 24x7 Response Team
  * Cost Protection

### AWS WAF

* Application layer protection
  * SQL Injection
  * Cross Site Scripting
  * Bad Bots
  * High Request Rates
  * Large Request Size
  * Blacklist/Whitelist IPs
* Associate with
  * CloudFront
  * ALBs


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