Subscribing and Using The AWS Shield Advanced For Higher Levels Of Protection Against Attacks Targeting The Apps

In this article, we’ll examine AWS Shield Advanced, which provides us with more customized protection against sophisticated (Layer 3 to 7) threats targeting our applications. We will learn to subscribe to, configure, and use it.

Topics we will cover:

1. What is WAF?
2. AWS WAF & Shield
3. AWS WAF
4. AWS Shield
4.1. AWS Shield Standard
4.2. AWS Shield Advanced
5. Subscribing and Using The AWS Shield Advanced
6. As a result
7. Next post: “AWS Best Practices for DDoS Mitigation and Security Techniques”
8. References

1. What is WAF?

When a website is online, it can become the target of many different types of attacks aimed at causing trouble and taking the site offline. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are a very common problem. Protection against DDoS attacks is of primary importance…