AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Creating the conditions

As mentioned earlier, conditions are configurable characteristics that you want WAF to monitor in each of your incoming web requests:

1. To get started with a condition, select the Create condition option from the IP match conditions tile.
2. Here, provide a suitable Name for your match condition and select the IPv4 option from the IP Version. Provide your desktop's or laptop's public IP in the Address field. You can alternatively provide a range of IP addresses here using either of the supported CIDR blocks.
3. Remember to select the Add IP address or range option before creating the match condition:

4. With the IP match condition ...