AWS Shield Alternatives (January 2026)

AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.

Defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on your applications and network with integrated DDoS protection and mitigation services from Azure.

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that monitors for malicious activity and anomalous behavior to protect AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Our Arbor Cloud DDoS protection service keeps your cloud application up and running. Learn more about how our industry-leading on demand DDoS protection can help you.

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

Google Cloud Armor is a network security service that provides defenses against DDoS and application attacks, and offers a rich set of WAF rules.

Mitigate the largest network and application layer DDoS attacks without interfering with your legitimate traffic flows.

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network—connecting your cloud and on-premises resources.