--- title: "AWS Shield Advanced - Air Market" description: "Something of yours is exposed to the internet and you want more protection against being flooded with traffic than the default gives you. This sets that protection up, arranges expert help you can ca…" canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/shieldadvanced" --- [Air Market](/) / [Security](/category/security) / AWS Shield Advanced Skill by [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) # AWS Shield Advanced Stronger defence for anything of yours facing the open internet ## What this does Something of yours is exposed to the internet and you want more protection against being flooded with traffic than the default gives you. This sets that protection up, arranges expert help you can call on during an attack, and covers recovering the costs an attack ran up. Reach for it before an attack if you can, and during one if you cannot. ### Top 3 things it does for you - Protect internet-facing resources against DDoS attacks - Get expert help while an attack is happening - Review what happened during an attack ## Information **AWS Shield Advanced at a glance** | | | | --- | --- | | Kind | Skill | | Publisher | [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) | | Category | [Security](/category/security) | | Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents | | Version | 1 | | Size | 95 KB | | Licence | Apache-2.0 | | Repository | [aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/fae975d565b6c1752e3f4795c499fb3951039777/skills/specialized-skills/networking-and-content-delivery-skills/shieldadvanced) | | GitHub stars | 2,420 (as of Nov 2026) | | Installs | 4,422, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) | ## Security report **Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of AWS Shield Advanced and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**. **What AWS Shield Advanced's check was run against** | | | | --- | --- | | Commit | fae975d565b6c1752e3f4795c499fb3951039777 | | Content hash | c13d5ee41bff33b728b2a1ff699ac7bd6f9d87b877eb259caa0f81ca6f6067a5 | | Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/blob/fae975d565b6c1752e3f4795c499fb3951039777/skills/specialized-skills/networking-and-content-delivery-skills/shieldadvanced/SKILL.md) | A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned. [Read the full security report for AWS Shield Advanced](/security/shieldadvanced) ## About AWS Shield Advanced Configuration guidance for AWS Shield Advanced, for stronger protection against distributed denial of service attacks. It covers subscribing accounts, adding protections to individual resources, and grouping resources into protection groups. It also covers automatic application layer mitigation through AWS WAF, health-based detection using Route 53 health checks, and setting up Shield Response Team access along with proactive engagement so expert help is arranged before you need it. Reviewing DDoS events after the fact and requesting cost protection credits for attack-driven scaling charges are included. It applies to internet-facing resources - CloudFront, Application and Network Load Balancers, Elastic IP addresses, Global Accelerator and Route 53 hosted zones. Authoring WAF rules, creating Route 53 health checks, and organization-wide rollout through Firewall Manager each have their own guidance. ## What's inside - SKILL.md - instructions - references/aggregating-resources-into-protection-groups.md - reference - references/configuring-health-based-detection.md - reference - references/deciding-between-shield-standard-and-advanced.md - reference - references/enabling-automatic-application-layer-mitigation.md - reference - references/reviewing-ddos-events-and-requesting-cost-protection.md - reference - references/setting-up-srt-support-and-proactive-engagement.md - reference - references/subscribing-to-shield-advanced-and-protecting-resources.md - reference ## Questions ### Is AWS Shield Advanced safe to install? AIR scanned this exact version of AWS Shield Advanced and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit fae975d565b6, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/shieldadvanced. ### How do I install AWS Shield Advanced? Open https://airmarket.ai/app/shieldadvanced on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/fae975d565b6c1752e3f4795c499fb3951039777/skills/specialized-skills/networking-and-content-delivery-skills/shieldadvanced. Install from that link, not the branch. ## Related on Air Market - [More Security listings](/category/security) - [Everything by Amazon Web Services](/@aws) --- Canonical URL: