Akamai App & API Protector vs. AWS Shield
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Akamai App & API Protector | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance. | N/A |
 AWS Shield | Score9.3 out of 10 | N/A | AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency. | $0 per month |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | — | AWS Shield Advanced charges are in addition to the standard fees for Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and AWS Global Accelerator. | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | - |