AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards 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.
StackPath makes it easy to establish full DDoS protection to detect and mitigate attacks on any layer of your applications.
Layer 3-4 Protection
All StackPath services are protected by platform-wide DDoS mitigation technologies, shielding anything you build or innovate on our platform from Layer 3-4 DDoS attacks.
Layer 7 Protection
StackPath WAF provides protection against Layer 7 attacks, with behavioral algorithms that detect and block volumetric traffic before they reach your application layer.
AWS Shield is ranked 25th in DDoS while StackPath DDoS Protection is ranked 37th in DDoS. AWS Shield is rated 0.0, while StackPath DDoS Protection is rated 0.0. On the other hand, AWS Shield is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai Kona Site Defender, Arbor DDoS, Azure DDoS Protection and Akamai Prolexic Routed, whereas StackPath DDoS Protection is most compared with .
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