Reduce AWS Shield costs with these tips

DDoS protection

AWS Shield cost saving tips

Optimize your AWS Shield costs with these tips

Review AWS Resources

Regularly checking and removing unused AWS resources shielded by AWS Shield can help avoid unnecessary payment for protection services that are not in use.

Use Tagging

Using tagging to track resource usage and cost allocation in AWS Shield helps optimize resource usage and pinpoint areas for potential cost savings.

Monitor Costs

Using AWS Budgets and billing alerts can help monitor AWS Shield costs against pre-set limits, aiding in early anomaly detection and preventing unexpected overages.

Service information & pricing

About AWS Shield

About AWS Shield

AWS Shield is a DDoS protection managed service, aiming to maximize application availability and performance. It automatically detects and mitigates DDoS events, offers custom app protection and cost-effective DDoS responses. AWS Shield Advanced offers specialized protection using exabyte-scale detection across AWS, defending applications and APIs, minimizing downtime and latency, and monitoring up to 1,000 resource types.

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AWS Shield pricing

AWS Shield Standard protects against most common network and DDoS attacks for free. AWS Shield Advanced, a paid service, provides extra protection for applications on EC2, ELB, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. It requires a year-long subscription with a monthly fee, plus data transfer charges. Shield Advanced fees are beside standard fees for its associated services. It also covers certain AWS WAF usage at no extra cost, renewing annually automatically.

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