AWS Shield vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

AWS Shield

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
IBM Cloud Internet Services	Score 9.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.	$275 per month, per domain

Pricing

AWS Shield

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Editions & Modules

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

IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard: $275.00
per month, per domain
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise: Call

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Shield	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Free Trial
No	Yes
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	IBM Cloud Internet Services

Best Alternatives
	AWS Shield	IBM Cloud Internet Services
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User Ratings
	AWS Shield	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (10 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Shield	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	IBM In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	IBM Integration with IBM Cloud applications Easy to manage web application firewall Ease of protecting CloudFoundry applications Good console UI Protection for rare managed service offerings such as CouchDB through IBM Cloudant Incentivized Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	IBM Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible. Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	IBM I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	IBM I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	IBM It had a positive impact with a big improvement on the performance of web applications. Services are quite fast to implement and easy to maintain from an IT perspective. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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