User Reviews of AWS Shield & Cloudflare

Updated December 2025

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AWS Shield review

PranavTelang
PranavTelang
Lead Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has enabled multi-layered threat mitigation but still lacks deeper visibility for...
AWS Shield has limited coverage as it only protects against common and high-volume network and transport layer attacks, such as SYN floods. It does not provide inherent protection against more sophisticated layer 7 attacks such as HTTP floods. In such cases, integration with WAF is necessary, which results in additional costs for customers....
Cloudflare review

Herb Angle
Herb Angle
Owner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Has helped manage client domains with streamlined access control and threat...
I don't know what areas could be improved with Cloudflare WAF; Cloudflare is constantly improving and adding features to their feature set. They're doing a good job, and as far as DNS and support for any domains that I create or my clients create, it's mandatory for me to make sure that they have Cloudflare as their DNS provider. The...

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