Top 10 AWS Shield Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to AWS Shield Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Cloudflare Application Security and Performance
By Cloudflare, Inc.
4.5/5
(599)
Product Description
Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solutions provide performance, reliability, and security for all of your web applications and APIs, wherever they are hosted and wherever your users are.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, Cloudflare Application Security and Performance is:
More usable
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

Google Cloud Armor
By Google
4/5
(23)
Product Description
Google Cloud Armor is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect applications and websites from a variety of threats, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and common web vulnerabilities. Leveraging Google's global infrastructure, Cloud Armor offers robust defenses to ensure the availability and security of online services. Key Features and Functionality: - Built-in DDoS Defense: Provides automatic protection against Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS attacks, benefiting from Google's extensive experience in safeguarding major internet properties. - Adaptive Protection: Utilizes machine learning to detect and mitigate high-volume Layer 7 DDoS attacks, analyzing traffic patterns in real-time to identify and respond to threats. - Pre-configured WAF Rules: Offers out-of-the-box web application firewall rules based on industry standards to defend against common vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi) attacks. - Bot Management: Integrates with reCAPTCHA Enterprise to provide automated protection against malicious bots, helping to prevent fraud and abuse at the edge of the network. - Rate Limiting: Implements rate-based rules to control the volume of incoming requests, protecting applications from being overwhelmed by excessive traffic and ensuring access for legitimate users. Primary Value and User Solutions: Google Cloud Armor delivers enterprise-grade protection by combining DDoS defense and web application firewall capabilities at a predictable monthly price. It addresses critical security challenges by mitigating the OWASP Top 10 risks and providing adaptive, machine learning-based defenses against sophisticated attacks. By integrating seamlessly with Google's global load balancing infrastructure, Cloud Armor ensures that applications remain secure and available, regardless of deployment environment—be it on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid setup.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, Google Cloud Armor is:
More expensive
Better at support
More usable
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

Azure DDoS Protection
By Microsoft
4.6/5
(11)
Product Description
Azure DDoS Protection service is integrated with Virtual Networks and provides protection for Azure applications from the impacts of DDoS attacks. It enables additional application specific tuning, alerting and telemetry features beyond the basic DDoS Protection which is included automatically in the Azure platform.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection is:
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

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F5 NGINX
By F5
4.6/5
(107)
Product Description
free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, F5 NGINX is:
Better at meeting requirements
More usable
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

DataDome
By DataDome
4.7/5
(231)
Product Description
Real-Time Bot Protection The #1 bot protection solution for e-commerce and classified ads businesses - Deploys in minutes on any web infrastructure - Unmatched bot detection speed and accuracy - Dedicated threat research and SOC teams
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, DataDome is:
More expensive
Better at support
More usable
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

HAProxy
By HAProxy
4.7/5
(894)
Product Description
HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more. Platform components: HAProxy Enterprise: a flexible data plane layer for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications that provides high-performance load balancing, high availability, an API/AI gateway, container networking, SSL processing, DDoS protection, bot detection and mitigation, global rate limiting, and a web application firewall (WAF). HAProxy Fusion: a scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, observability, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments, with infrastructure integration for AWS, Kubernetes, Consul, and Prometheus. HAProxy Edge: a globally distributed application delivery network that provides fully managed application delivery and security services, a secure partition between external traffic and origin networks, and threat intelligence enhanced by machine learning that powers the security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise. Learn more at HAProxy.com.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, HAProxy is:
More expensive
Better at support
More usable
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

Radware DefensePro
By Radware
4.6/5
(37)
Product Description
DefensePro provides automated DDoS protection from fast-moving, high-volume, encrypted or very-short-duration threats and is part of Radware’s attack mitigation solution. It defends against IoT-based, Burst, DNS and TLS/SSL attacks to secure organizations against emerging network multivector attacks, ransom DDoS campaigns, IoT botnets, phantom floods, and other types of cyberattacks. DefensePro leverages patented behavior-based detection technology enables organizations to accurately detect attacks in real time while minimizing false positives. Attack signatures can be automatically generated to accurately protect from zero-day and unknown attacks. Product video URL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykhdjGfQ9L4
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, Radware DefensePro is:
More expensive
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

Imperva DDoS Protection
By Thales Group
4.4/5
(12)
Product Description
Imperva DDoS protection mitigates the largest attacks immediately without incurring latency or interfering with legitimate users. Multiple DDoS protection options have been designed to meet your exact needs.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, Imperva DDoS Protection is:
Better at support
More usable
More expensive
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection

Webroot DNS Protection
By OpenText
4.4/5
(86)
Product Description
Webroot SecureAnywhere DNS Protection offers a quick, straightforward, and highly effective way to secure the DNS protocol connection against compromise. With advanced reporting and 82 URL categories, admins gain greater visibility than ever, reduce risk, and can tailor usage policies to their organization's unique needs.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS Shield, Webroot DNS Protection is:
More usable
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with AWS Shield:
DDoS Protection