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Comment by carterehsmith | Hacker News Reader

As per the pricing page, looks like you _do_ need support plan:

"AWS Shield Advanced is available to customers who are enrolled in either the Enterprise or Business Support levels of AWS Premium Support."

https://aws.amazon.com/shield/pricing/

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Oh wow, thanks! I hadn't noticed that yet :| So many caveats to this thing.

Look like I'd need to pony up >1k/mo on top of 3k to get access to the service then...

AWS is not the place to be if you're on a budget

How often are people on a budget the target of serious ddos attacks?

The government

A better question would be, "How often are people on a budget the target of a budget DDOS attack?" I think we've long since entered the era where DDOS attacks don't have to be "serious" to be massive.

Pretty often, especially in the realm of journalism (Wikileaks et al) and especially in network-security journalism. (Imagine writing exposés about botnet-owners. Imagine what kind of DDoS results from that.)

Yes and Amazon is the company to go running to if you are doing things that the establishment does not like. I don't think so.

Brian Krebs is basically who you're talking about. https://krebsonsecurity.com/

A lot of game servers (eg Minecraft) get DDoSed by competitor servers or players as revenge

More generally: I think a decent fraction of the people who think DDoSing is an appropriate way to deal with personal vendettas are kids. The targets of kids' vendettas are often also kids. Kids tend to have low budgets. (The budget required to launch a DDoS, through one of the many commercial websites that sell them, is pretty low.)

See above, business level support 24/7 with phones is $100/month.

For people paying less than 1k on their bill, or am I missing something? I feel pretty confident in the layout I... Laid out.

Hmmm, reading further, there is a 12-month commitment on the $3,000/month plan.

So if you get hit by DDOS, you can't just pay $3,000 and hope that DDOS is gone within a month. Looks like you have to sign up for a year's worth of protection.

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