AWS Shield vs AWS WAF vs AWS Macie - Protect Resources and Data - AWS Certification Cheat Sheet


Let’s get a quick overview of AWS Shield, AWS WAF and AWS Macie.

You will learn

  • What is AWS Shield and AWS WAF?
  • When do we use AWS Shield and WAF?
  • How does AWS Macie help in protecting your data in Amazon S3?

AWS Shield

  • Shields from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
    • Disrupt normal traffic of a server by overwhelming it with a flood of Internet traffic
  • Protect
    • Amazon Route 53
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • AWS Global Accelerator
    • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances
    • Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)

AWS Shield - Standard and Advanced

  • AWS Shield Standard
    • Zero Cost. Automatically enabled.
    • Protection against common infrastructure (layer 3 and 4) DDoS attacks
  • AWS Shield Advanced
    • Paid service
    • Enhanced protection for Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53
    • 24x7 access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT)
    • Protects your AWS bill from usage spikes as a result of a DDoS attack
  • Protect any web application (from Amazon S3 or external) from DDoS by putting Amazon CloudFront enabled with AWS Shield in front of it

AWS WAF - Web Application Firewall

  • AWS WAF protect your web applications from OWASP Top 10 exploits, CVE and a lot more!
    • OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top 10
      • List of broadly agreed “most critical security risks to web applications
      • Examples : SQL injection, cross-site scripting etc
    • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a list of information-security vulnerabilities and exposures
  • Can be deployed on Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancer, Amazon API Gateway
  • Customize rules & trigger realtime alerts (CloudWatch Alarms)
  • Web traffic filtering : block attacks
    • Filter traffic based on IP addresses, geo locations, HTTP headers and body (block attacks from specific user-agents, bad bots, or content scrapers)

Amazon Macie

  • Fully managed data security and data privacy service
  • Automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in Amazon S3 buckets
  • When migrating data to AWS use S3 for staging
    • Run Macie to discover secure data
  • Uses machine learning
  • Recognizes sensitive data
    • Example: personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property
  • Provides you with dashboards and alerts
    • Gives visibility into how data is being accessed or moved

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