Correct Answer: 24x7 access to the AWS SRT (Shield Response Team) and financial protection against scaling costs
Shield Advanced provides dedicated support and cost protection for DDoS-related traffic spikes....
Correct Answer
24x7 access to the AWS SRT (Shield Response Team) and financial protection against scaling costs
Why This Answer Is Correct
Shield Advanced provides dedicated support and cost protection for DDoS-related traffic spikes.
This question evaluates your knowledge of AWS Shield — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02). Understanding AWS Shield is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your public-facing web application is under a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. You need a managed service to detect and mitigate these attacks automatically. What should you enable?
Which AWS service provides automatic protection against the most common Infrastructure Layer (Layer 3 and 4) DDoS attacks at no additional cost?
On which AWS services can you enable AWS Shield Advanced protection?
What is the 'Shield Response Team' (SRT)?
Does AWS Shield Standard provide protection against Application Layer (Layer 7) attacks like SQL injection?