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. Â
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....
