AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF now available in US West (N. California) Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the availability of AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF in the US West (N. California) Region.

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, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection. There are two tiers of AWS Shield - Standard and Advanced. To learn more visit the detailed page here.

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF gives you control over which traffic to allow or block to your web applications by defining customizable web security rules. To learn more visit the detailed page here.