Posted On: Aug 1, 2023
Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It also provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Application Load Balancer, AWS AppSync GraphQL API, AWS Verified Access Instances and Amazon Cognito user pools. To learn more about AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF, visit the AWS Shield Advanced product page and the AWS WAF product page.
For a full list of AWS regions where these services are available, visit the AWS Regional Services page. Pricing may vary between regions. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS Shield Pricing page and AWS WAF Pricing page.