A company wants to protect its Amazon Route 53 hosted zones and Amazon CloudFront distributions from large-scale DDoS attacks. They also require access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT). Which service should they use?

Answer options:

AWS Shield Standard

AWS WAF

AWS Shield Advanced

Amazon GuardDuty

How to approach this question

Identify the premium DDoS protection service.

Full Answer

C.AWS Shield Advanced✓ Correct

AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on AWS and includes 24x7 access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT).

Common mistakes

Selecting Shield Standard, which is free but lacks DRT access.

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