
Web Application Firewall, Web API Protection - AWS WAF - AWS
AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
What are AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, and AWS Firewall …
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that you can use to monitor web requests that your end users send to your applications and to control access to your content.
AWS WAF Documentation
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor and manage web requests that are forwarded to protected AWS resources. With AWS WAF, you can protect resources such as Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Application Load Balancers, and AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs.
AWS WAF - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Shield …
Use AWS WAF to control access to your content and to monitor the requests that are forwarded to an Amazon CloudFront distribution, an Amazon API Gateway REST API, an Application Load Balancer, an AWS AppSync GraphQL API, an Amazon Cognito user pool, an AWS App Runner service, or an AWS Verified Access instance.
FAQs - AWS WAF - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define.
How AWS WAF works
Manage web traffic with AWS WAF: configure rules, actions, and metrics for API Gateway, ALB, and more. Includes key phrases like "web request filtering" and "web ACL metrics". What are AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, and AWS Firewall Manager?
Features - AWS WAF - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS WAF lets you create rules to filter web traffic based on conditions that include IP addresses, HTTP headers and body, or custom URIs. This gives you an additional layer of protection from web attacks that attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in custom or third party web applications.
Getting Started - AWS WAF - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
With AWS WAF, you can create a web access control list (web ACL) to block or allow certain web requests. Learn more in the documentation. Follow our Getting Started Guide to start using AWS WAF in a few clicks.
AWS WAF or AWS Shield? - AWS WAF or AWS Shield? - docs.aws.amazon…
Sep 17, 2024 · AWS WAF focuses on protecting your web applications from common web exploits. Use AWS WAF to create customizable web security rules to filter malicious traffic, protect against attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site …
Setting up AWS WAF and its components
The AWS WAF console guides you through the process of configuring AWS WAF to block or allow web requests based on criteria that you specify, such as the IP addresses that the requests originate from or values in the requests.