AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF

In the previous chapter, we learned a lot about how to leverage Amazon Elastic Beanstalk as well as Amazon Elastic File System to build and deploy highly scalable and available applications with the utmost of ease! However, there is one critical aspect that we didn't talk too much about in the previous chapter, and that is, of course, security! "How do I safeguard my applications and workloads against malicious software and threats?" This is exactly the question we will try and answer through a combination of two simple, yet very powerful, AWS services, namely AWS Shield and AWS Web Application Firewall, or WAF.

Keeping this in mind, let's have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in ...