Q: What are AWS Shield's top competitors?

Cloudflare , Akamai CDN , and Imperva DDoS Protection are common alternatives for AWS Shield.

Question 1

What is AWS Shield?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 2

What are AWS Shield's top competitors?

Accepted Answer

Cloudflare, Akamai CDN, and Imperva DDoS Protection are common alternatives for AWS Shield.

Question 3

Who uses AWS Shield?

Accepted Answer

The most common users of AWS Shield are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

AWS Shield Competitors and Alternatives

Most Commonly Comparedto AWS Shield

Cloudflare

Akamai CDN

Imperva DDoS Protection

BloxOne Threat Defense

NGINX

Check Point Quantum DDoS Protector

FortiDDoS

NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection

Akamai Prolexic