Akamai App & API Protector vs. AWS Shield

Akamai App & API Protector

AWS Shield

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai App & API Protector	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.	N/A
AWS Shield	Score 9.5 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

Pricing

Akamai App & API Protector

AWS Shield

Editions & Modules

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

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API Protector	AWS Shield
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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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
	Akamai App & API Protector	AWS Shield

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User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	AWS Shield
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	AWS Shield
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
Cons	Akamai Custom rules might be hard to configure For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Akamai Fair Security investment An attack impact would be higher Support contract is not cheap Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
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