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What is AWS Shield?

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency.

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AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency.


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Sunil R.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

Monitoring is one part which is very essentials eg, VPC flow logs, s3 logs, API logs, system logs with aggregators etc . But analysing the logs as centralized hub , security hub provides the context. Along side coming to compliance , macie with its AI ML models , able to identify PII in S3. More that these, custome logs can also be formatter into ASAF using services like Lamba intervined. Which threat own threat intelligence capablitiy and custom integration to SIEM solution offers visibility across the environment. Apart from service, aws provides a lot of resources for industary standards and that keeps us upto date and skilled. Support is alwasys a second option , as I get everything from easy documented materials. Day to day getting used, gave a clear explames of scenarios where I can act upon a breach or an event with the available service. which helped me to understand the risks and what security controls are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

Image recongnikition where photocopies of Sensitive information are elsewhere, not sure where to get the docs. But with few service capablities, was able to do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

No setup required. Recommendations given by AWS are a start pioint. Building layes of security is also notified with predefined rules and standards. Provides great source of references for creating and implementing an high level industry security best practices. Also offers suggestions in each layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

AWS has good number of services which are best among all Cloud service providers for me like AWS Transist Gateway to support Hub and Spoke architecture, AWS WAF and Shield for L3,L4 & L7 attacks, AWS IAM, AWS Gurd duty, AWS Inspector etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

AWS Shield advance service needs an improvement to protect from every type of DDoS attacks as it was failed twice to detect DDoS attacks and failed to protect our resources and systems where inaccessible during DDoS attack simulation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS WAF has feature to use third party mannaged WAF rules, because which we can incorporate third party mannaged rules by key players in industry like F5, Imperva, Cloudflare. This reduses possibility of buying third party products and fully relly on AWS native WAFs. AWS Certificate manager helps us to create, manage & store custom SSL certificates of all our applications. AWS KMS gives liberty to save, create, import custom encryption key in symmetric or assymetric way that too in same or cross account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

AWS Cloud security is the bedlock of digital trust, offering multi-layered defense that anticipates and neutralizes cyber threats. With unrivaled compliance adherence and dynamic adaptability, it stands as the epitome of safe guarding in the ever-evolving relam of cloud computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

AWS vloud security only disappointment is its convoluted interface and lacks user-friendly features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS Cloud security addresses the challaenge of safeguarding digital assets in the clous, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality , and availability. As a CloudOps engineer, this is benificial to us by providing a robust and scalable security framework, allowinv me to focus on optimizing operational efficiency and innovation without compramising on the integrity and resilience of cloud infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

Comprehensive security suite: AWS offers a vast array of security tools and services, covering everything from access management to data encryption and threat detection. This one-stop shop simplifies security implementation and reduces the need for third-party solutions.

Granular control: AWS allows you to fine-tune security settings based on your specific needs and risk tolerance. This level of customization empowers organizations to build a security posture that aligns with their unique environment.

Compliance-focused: AWS provides built-in features and pre-configured compliance frameworks that help organizations meet industry regulations and internal policies. This can significantly streamline compliance audits and reporting processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

Complexity: The sheer breadth of AWS security offerings can be overwhelming for new users. Navigating the different services and understanding their interactions can be a steep learning curve, even for experienced IT professionals.

Pricing: While AWS offers a free tier for some services, many essential security features come at a cost. The pricing structure can be complex, making it difficult to accurately estimate and budget for security expenses.

Limited visibility: While AWS provides tools for monitoring and analyzing security events, the default dashboards can lack depth and customization options. For organizations with complex security needs, building comprehensive security reports may require additional tools or expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

mproved peace of mind: Knowing your cloud environment is secure allows you to focus on your core business activities without worry.

Enhanced security posture: Granular control and customization options enable you to tailor your security settings to your specific needs and risk tolerance.

Reduced operational costs: Streamlined compliance processes and preemptive threat detection can potentially save you money on fines, data recovery, and remediation efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Products used within AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance: AWS Directory Service, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Inspector, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager
What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

IAM - Multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds another layer of security to AWS IAM by providing fine-grained control over user permissions.

Security Services: In comparison to other cloud vendors in the market, AWS offers many security services.

like Amazon guard duty and Amazon inspector.

AWS Security Hub and Amazon GuardDuty were popular services in our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

As of now, I have not found anything bad about AWS cloud security.

Cloud Security's interface may seem a bit confusing to some users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

At Rest Encryption: An additional layer of security is provided by AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

In Transit Encryption: SSL/TLS is employed to secure data during transit.

As a result, I am able to enhance the security of my AWS cloud services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Shield?

AWS shield is a service by amazon aws which provides managed solution for protecting your particular service or application on AWS from Distributed Denial of Service attack.This attack is one of the common attack from the hacker which gives constant request to your application making it insufficient to serve the real world users and so protection from such an attack is mandatory.As it is a well known attack there are many solutions also available for the same but as you are running a aws service I prefer using AWS Shield.It has salient features like easy integration and deployment,easily scalable and above all cost efficient.So it is a mandatory security service for any aws application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Shield?

I think they should try to give more protection against other attacks also,like integrate more security measures so that we could get everything from one place itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield:

I recommend using AWS shield for safeguarding your applications hosted on aws.As you might be aware of DDos and if you are not just search it on the web,it is one of the most dangerous threats that this current generations of applications might face if proper precautions are not taken.So AWS shield which provides DDos protection for your AWS applications at much lower cost is worthy of integrating into your aws application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use AWS shield for safe guarding my client's and my applications from the real world security threats mainly DDos.I have used AWS shield in almost all of my services that I built on aws because I think it is a mandatory service to integrate in your application for security reasons because by chance if your app is attacked by DDos than it becomes a very hasty task of recovering it.So I use AWS shield for staying on safer side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Shield?

I like how easy it is to set up the Shield. Moreover, apart from setting it up, a person does not need much knowledge in it whatsoever. Security Team does not need to explain what sort of attacks take place and how to protect from them but just assign a system administrator to work on the following problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Shield?

I would say that one thing that I do not like there is to have limited options on protection from SQL injections and limited abilities for protection from DoS. I would like to have an ability to coordinate a specific protection and trigger it at specific time. Some functions of it interfere with other services so billing gets confusing very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield:

I would say to that Amazon Web Services Shield is heading to the right direction. I would like to have some things to be implemented a little differently. Marketplace is a great option that you have, but there are some popular options that people often use, but not implement them at your service? Apart from that, billing is really confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am trying to protect applications from having malicious scripts injected into them. We have had an application designed with a poor quality and somehow it got infected with a virus that started mining bitcoins which increases our billing the following month. Having set up security well and using AWS Shield have helped us to eliminate such problems in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Shield?

It provides automatic protection from DDos attacks without any additional charges , as we all know DDos attack can bring down the performance of you application in a minutes so it's the must required service for your all applications , you can enable AWS Shield Advanced protection for Amazon cloud Front and it also offers DDoS cost protection !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Shield?

As if now their is nothing to dislike about AWS sheild all things are good !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield:

AWS Shield provides live network flow monitoring and protection to your applications from DDos attacks automatically , and it's very cost effective !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

we use it to protect our all application servers from this frequently occurring DDoS attack , for that we're using AWS Shield Standard with Amazon CloudFront!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Shield?

During my utilisation of the system "AWS Shield" the thing that I like best is that the website / the graphics and a lot of things like this are really good.

Using this service could prevent many Ddos attacks against our servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Shield?

During my utilisation of the system "AWS Shield" the thing that I dislike are things like the price wich is High for me and my team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield:

you have to think about which offer to use rather than another.

Because it could really help you and your bui Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

the website of our company was often turned off after Ddos attacks but now we no longer have problems and can worry about other topics ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Shield?

Its easy to set up and it has several ways to protect your infrastructure with great reports and visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Shield?

Its a little expensive but its the best option so we use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield:

If you look to any other options in the market you'll see that this is the best one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since the last time that we were attack with a DDos, we have implemented this solution and now with are protected to any other future attacks, for now we can see them, prevent them and continue working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.