AWS Shield vs pfSense: What are the differences?

AWS Shield: Managed DDoS Protection. AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection; pfSense: An open source firewall/router computer software distribution. It is an open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. It is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network.

AWS Shield and pfSense can be primarily classified as "Security" tools.

According to the StackShare community, AWS Shield has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to pfSense, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.