Amazon Web Services Web Application Firewall and AWS Shield Advanced is now available in US West Region

Amazon Web Services announced that AWS Web Application Firewall and AWS Shield Advanced are now available in US West (N. California) Region. AWS Web Application Firewall helps to protect the web application from web viruses which affect the application availability, consume excessive resources or compromise security. AWS Shield Advanced is administered Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that secures web applications that work on AWS. With AWS Shield you will be provided with always on detection and automatic inline mitigations that will reduce application latency and downtime so ultimately there is no need enlist AWS support to aid from DDoS protection.