--- title: AWS Shield Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS Shield Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Shield works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 15 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Web Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-security --- # AWS Shield Reviews & Product Details AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS Shield Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-shield/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-shield/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cloudflare Application Security and Performance") Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 4.5/5(699) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud Armor](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud Armor") Google Cloud Armor 4/5(23) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-armor/reviews) [ ![Azure DDoS Protection](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure DDoS Protection") Azure DDoS Protection 4.6/5(11) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-ddos-protection/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-shield/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 15 real user reviews. 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AP Atharva P. Cloud BI Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/27/2026 "Always-On DDoS Protection with Seamless AWS Integration" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS Shield? The biggest advantage of AWS Shield is that it delivers always-on DDoS protection without the need for dedicated security appliances or complicated network configurations. AWS Shield Standard automatically protects AWS resources from common infrastructure-level attacks, while Shield Advanced adds stronger detection and mitigation, improved visibility, and access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT). Its native integration with CloudFront, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS WAF also makes it straightforward to harden internet-facing applications without having to change the application architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Shield? Many of the most valuable capabilities—such as detailed attack diagnostics, proactive engagement, and cost protection—are only available with AWS Shield Advanced. For smaller organizations that only need basic DDoS protection, it can be hard to justify moving up to the advanced tier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? AWS Shield helps protect internet-facing applications from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could otherwise impact application availability. For example, for a customer-facing web application running behind Application Load Balancer and CloudFront, AWS Shield automatically detected and mitigated unusually high volumes of malicious network traffic targeting public endpoints. When combined with AWS WAF, malicious requests were filtered out while legitimate users were still able to access the application without any noticeable performance degradation. Overall, this improved application availability and reduced the operational effort required to respond during security incidents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/31/2018 "Shield is a great tool" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS Shield? I like how easy it is to set up the Shield. Moreover, apart from setting it up, a person does not need much knowledge in it whatsoever. Security Team does not need to explain what sort of attacks take place and how to protect from them but just assign a system administrator to work on the following problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Shield? I would say that one thing that I do not like there is to have limited options on protection from SQL injections and limited abilities for protection from DoS. I would like to have an ability to coordinate a specific protection and trigger it at specific time. Some functions of it interfere with other services so billing gets confusing very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield: I would say to that Amazon Web Services Shield is heading to the right direction. I would like to have some things to be implemented a little differently. Marketplace is a great option that you have, but there are some popular options that people often use, but not implement them at your service? Apart from that, billing is really confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? I am trying to protect applications from having malicious scripts injected into them. We have had an application designed with a poor quality and somehow it got infected with a virus that started mining bitcoins which increases our billing the following month. Having set up security well and using AWS Shield have helped us to eliminate such problems in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SM sanya m. Senior Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/26/2018 "best service to protect your running applications from DDos Attack!!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Shield? It provides automatic protection from DDos attacks without any additional charges , as we all know DDos attack can bring down the performance of you application in a minutes so it's the must required service for your all applications , you can enable AWS Shield Advanced protection for Amazon cloud Front and it also offers DDoS cost protection !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Shield? As if now their is nothing to dislike about AWS sheild all things are good !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield: AWS Shield provides live network flow monitoring and protection to your applications from DDos attacks automatically , and it's very cost effective !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? we use it to protect our all application servers from this frequently occurring DDoS attack , for that we're using AWS Shield Standard with Amazon CloudFront!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/3/2018 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/31/2018 "Essential protection for businesses hosted on AWS" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS Shield? Elastic IPs helps keep apps secure and available at all times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Shield? Best features are a part of Shield Advanced, not the Standard version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS Shield: Attack notifications could include greater details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? DDOS protection. Keeps the business online, prevents customers from being locked out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Networking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Networking") UC Verified User in Computer Networking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/30/2018 "AWS shield : My analysis" 3.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Shield? AWS shield is like a saviour to the problem of DDos attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Shield? The shield protection requires subscription. And it is very expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? Prevent DDos attacks in my IoT system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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