AWS Shield vs. NGINX
| 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 |
 NGINX | Score9.2 out of 10 | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create… | N/A |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | Optional | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | - | 8.8 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 9.1 |
| Usability | - | 9.0 |
| Support Rating | - | 8.1 |