This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- AWS Shield Standard is a free, automatic service protecting against common network and transport layer (Layer 3/4) DDoS attacks.

- AWS Shield Advanced is a paid service offering enhanced protection, 24/7 access to the DDoS Response Team (DRT), and cost protection for attack-related scaling.

- AWS WAF is a web application firewall that protects against application-layer (Layer 7) attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

- Amazon CloudFront acts as a first line of defense by absorbing and distributing attack traffic at its global edge locations before it reaches your origin.

- A complete DDoS strategy involves layering these services: CloudFront at the edge, protected by Shield, with WAF filtering application-specific traffic.

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