http://shield.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSShield_20160616.CreateProtection<p>Enables Shield Advanced for a specific Amazon Web Services resource. The resource can be an Amazon CloudFront distribution, Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, Global Accelerator standard accelerator, Elastic IP Address, Application Load Balancer, or a Classic Load Balancer. You can protect Amazon EC2 instances and Network Load Balancers by association with protected Amazon EC2 Elastic IP addresses.</p> <p>You can add protection to only a single resource with each <code>CreateProtection</code> request. You can add protection to multiple resources at once through the Shield Advanced console at <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/shieldv2#/">https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/shieldv2#/</a>. For more information see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/getting-started-ddos.html">Getting Started with Shield Advanced</a> and <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/configure-new-protection.html">Adding Shield Advanced protection to Amazon Web Services resources</a>.</p>
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'http://shield.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSShield_20160616.CreateProtection' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}http://shield.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSShield_20160616.CreateProtection<p>Enables Shield Advanced for a specific Amazon Web Services resource. The resource can be an Amazon CloudFront distribution, Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, Global Accelerator standard accelerator, Elastic IP Address, Application Load Balancer, or a Classic Load Balancer. You can protect Amazon EC2 instances and Network Load Balancers by association with protected Amazon EC2 Elastic IP addresses.</p> <p>You can add protection to only a single resource with each <code>CreateProtection</code> request. You can add protection to multiple resources at once through the Shield Advanced console at <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/shieldv2#/">https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/shieldv2#/</a>. For more information see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/getting-started-ddos.html">Getting Started with Shield Advanced</a> and <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/configure-new-protection.html">Adding Shield Advanced protection to Amazon Web Services resources</a>.</p>
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'http://shield.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSShield_20160616.CreateProtection' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}