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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Select TWO statements that describe the main roles of AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and AWS Shield?
A
AWS Shield Standard is inherently available within the AWS WAF service at noextra cost
B
AWS WAF is inherently available within the AWS Shield Standard service at anadditional charge
C
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) will provide expanded protection against SYN floods, DNS query oods and UDP reflection attacks at no additional cost
D
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and AWS Shield are fully-managed services
E
AWS WAF is a web application rewall that includes AWS Shield-a service that prevents distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to your protected web application resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distribution. Amazon API Gateway REST API.

Detailed explanation-2: -AWS WAF can be natively enabled on CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, Application Load Balancer, or AWS AppSync and is deployed alongside these services.

Detailed explanation-3: -AWS WAF helps protects your website from common attack techniques like SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). In addition, you can create rules that can block or rate-limit traffic from specific user-agents, from specific IP addresses, or that contain particular request headers.

Detailed explanation-4: -AWS Shield Standard and AWS Shield Advanced provide protections against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for AWS resources at the network and transport layers (layer 3 and 4) and the application layer (layer 7).

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