Which service can be utilized to safeguard online applications from Distributed Denial of Service attacks, helping to maintain their availability?
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Shield
Amazon Inspector
AWS WAF
AWS Shield is designed specifically to protect internet-facing applications from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. By providing always-on detection and automatic response to common infrastructure layer (layer 3 and 4) attacks, AWS Shield maintains the availability of an application during such incidents. Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior, AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common web exploits, and Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications on EC2 instances. Of these options, only AWS Shield is specifically focused on DDoS protection.
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