AWS Shield Advanced offers a wider scope of advantages, features, and DDoS protection compared to AWS Shield Standard. One of the biggest additional features that it supports is application traffic monitoring and support for large-scale DDoS attacks. With this in mind, AWS Shield Advanced is recommended for organizations where these kinds of attacks could be significant for business productivity.
It also has advanced feature sets when it comes to visibility and reporting against layer 3, layer 4, and layer 7 attacks (network, transport, and application). Plus, it comes with access to a 24/7 specialized DDoS response team at AWS, known as DRT.
One last point I want to make about AWS Shield Advanced is that it comes with cost protection. This could be very advantageous in the event of a significant attack. During an attack, services such as Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, and EC2 may escalate to cope with the flood of traffic....
