AWS Shield vs Cloudflare Magic Transit
AWS Shield
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| Figure | AWS Shield | Cloudflare Magic Transit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $3,000/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · DDoS Protection Software | 8.3 (#3) | 7.1 (#17) |
| Integrations | Shield Advanced integrates with AWS WAF and AWS Firewall Manager, and provides event visibility through Amazon CloudWatch. | Standard Network Firewall features include integration with Cloudflare WAN; the Magic Transit Virtual Network can transport packets between tunnels, interconnects, Cloudflare Load Balancer, and Zero Trust connections. |
| Purpose | AWS Shield identifies network security configuration issues and defends applications against active web exploitation and distributed denial of service events. | Magic Transit provides DDoS protection, traffic acceleration, and other network security and performance services for on-premises, cloud-hosted, and hybrid networks. |
Plans
In their own words
AWS Shield
AWS Shield helps AWS customers identify network security configuration issues and defend applications against web exploitation and distributed denial of service events. Shield Standard is automatically configured for AWS customers and provides common network- and transport-layer DDoS protection at no charge. Shield Advanced adds detection and automatic inline mitigation for sophisticated events across network, transport, and application layers. It monitors traffic patterns for anomalies such as HTTP and DNS query floods and supports EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, and Route 53. Advanced integrates with AWS WAF and AWS Firewall Manager, with event visibility through Amazon CloudWatch. It includes DDoS cost protection for qualifying usage spikes and up to 50 billion AWS WAF requests per subscribed payer account per calendar month for protected resources. The Advanced plan costs $3,000/mo, requires a one-year subscription commitment, and usage fees may apply. Network security director is in preview and is not included with either listed plan.
Cloudflare Magic Transit
Cloudflare Magic Transit has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.