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How AWS WAF and Shield protects from web application exploits and DDoS attack During the initial years of cloud adoption, security was one in every one of the top considerations. Organizations worried about, however, their data was secured in others’ data centers, and whether or not cloud providers would ensure their information wasn’t exposed. Cloud providers worked very hard to address these issues, obtaining a number of industry certifications that proved they were fully secured and following the required processes. As a result, when organizations did switch to the cloud, they were able to leverage its benefits — IaaS, agility, durability, no CAPEX investment, and pay-per-use pricing — to scale up their businesses. However, cloud adoption also gave attackers and hackers a brand new way to launch layer three, layer 4, layer 7, and mass DDoS attacks against the environment. Today, these attacks are testing the boundaries of cloud providers and also the ability of application