AWS Shield | Billing

Question 1

How can I see if my AWS WAF rules are working?

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Answer 1

AWS WAF includes two different ways to see how your website is being protected: one-minute metrics are available in CloudWatch and Sampled Web Requests are available in the AWS WAF API or management console. These allow you to see which requests were blocked, allowed, or counted and what rule was matched on a given request (i.e., this web request was blocked due to an IP address condition, etc.). For more information see the AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced Developer Guide.

Question 2

How am I charged for AWS Shield Standard?

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Answer 2

AWS Shield Standard is built into the AWS services that you already use for your web applications. There are no additional costs for AWS Shield Standard.

Question 3

How am I charged for AWS Shield Advanced?

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Answer 3

With AWS Shield Advanced, you pay a monthly fee of $3,000 per month. In addition, you also pay for the Data Transfer usage fees for AWS resources enabled for advanced protection. AWS Shield Advanced charges are in addition to standard fees on Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Please see the AWS Shield Pricing page for more details.