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Shield Advanced is $3,000/mo per org plus DTO fees — for a consumer marketplace (~180M req/mo CloudFront), cost protection credited $41k in scaling charges after a 38-minute L7 event when WAF rate rules were pre-configured.

Billing attacks: CloudFront request floods, Lambda bombs, SQS/SNS OTP spam. July 2026 — WAF ceilings, reserved concurrency, Budgets Actions, FinOps backstops.