POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSShield_20160616.CreateProtection

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>

Access Token Required: API Key

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

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'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}