You have to consider OP might have been misled by the Amazon Sales team to buy their $3k per month DDoS protection.
* I found AWS Shield Advanced organically
* It was a DDoS attack
* I am incredibly happy with the personalized service. It’s like hiring someone to handle it, except you have people on call 24x7
This is what confuses me out of a lot of these replies, saying you're being swindled for paying for this "absurd service" when you should just "own your infra yourself and hire people to manage this"
Do they think owning all this yourself and hiring specialized DDoS people is gonna cost less than $36k/yr? Because I don't think it will.