A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third party service is used for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against largescale DDoS attacks. Which solution meets these requirements?

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AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigation of DDoS attacks. By assigning Amazon Route 53 to AWS Shield, the company can protect their web application against large-scale DDoS attacks.

A Company Is Preparing to Launch a Public-Facing Web Application