AWS Shield vs. Cloudflare
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 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 |
 Cloudflare | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability. | $20 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 | - | 9.2 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.2 |
| Usability | - | 8.6 |
| Availability | - | 9.1 |
| Performance | - | 9.1 |
| Support Rating | - | 9.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.6 |
| Configurability | - | 9.0 |
| Ease of integration | - | 9.0 |
| Product Scalability | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 7.0 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 8.0 |