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AWS Shied advanced credits for ElastiCache?

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Does Shield Advanced include credits for AWS ElastiCache charges in the event of a DDoS attack? ElastiCache auto scaling can scale up in the event of malicious extra demand that can cost the client additional charges.

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Security, Identity, & Compliance
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AWS-User-9419579
asked 3 years ago389 views
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To be more precise, credits are available only for the following types of charges:

  • Shield Advanced data transfer out
  • Amazon CloudFront HTTP/HTTPS requests
  • CloudFront data transfer out
  • Amazon Route 53 queries
  • AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator data transfer
  • Load balancer capacity units for Application Load Balancer
  • Instance costs for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances that were created by an auto-scaling policy in response to the attack that are behind a Protected Resource

I believe that as an Elasticache cluster using on-demand nodes has EC2 costs built into pricing, that you should be able to recoup the equivalent basic EC2 costs of your caching node types, however I have yet to see this tested in a 'real' cost protection request.

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Joanna K
answered a year ago

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