Configuring AWS Shield and AWS WAF for advanced protection
Moving forward in this chapter, this section explores the role and practicalities of AWS Shield and AWS WAF to ensure your applications and data in your VPCs are well-protected. AWS Shield specializes in mitigating DDoS attacks, offering automatic detection and response capabilities that scale with your traffic, ensuring continuous protection. AWS WAF complements this by guarding web applications from exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks through customizable security rules. Utilizing both services together enhances your security posture, shielding your applications and data from volumetric attacks and targeted web vulnerabilities with minimal manual intervention. By deploying these services in tandem, you can fortify your applications and data against a broad spectrum of threats. First, let’s dive into the capabilities offered by AWS Shield in more detail.
