Setting up AWS Shield Advanced - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Shield Advanced

Setting up AWS Shield Advanced

This tutorial walks you through getting started with AWS Shield Advanced using the Shield Advanced console.

Note

Shield Advanced requires a subscription, while AWS Shield Standard does not. The protections provided by Shield Standard are available free of charge to all AWS customers.

Shield Advanced provides advanced DDoS detection and mitigation protection for network layer (layer 3), transport layer (layer 4), and application layer (layer 7) attacks. For more information about Shield Advanced, see AWS Shield Advanced overview.

The AWS technical community has published an example of an automated process for configuring Shield Advanced using the infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. You can use AWS Firewall Manager with this solution if your accounts are part of an organization in AWS Organizations and if you're protecting any resource types except for Amazon Route 53 or AWS Global Accelerator. To explore this option, see the code repository at aws-samples / aws-shield-advanced-one-click-deployment and the tutorial at One-click deployment of Shield Advanced.

Note

It's important that you fully configure Shield Advanced prior to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) event. Complete the configuration to help ensure that your application is protected and that you are ready to respond if your application is affected by a DDoS attack.

Perform the following steps in sequence to get started using Shield Advanced.

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