AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Creating the web ACL

Once you are done with your CDN, head over to the AWS Management Console and filter out WAF and Shield services using the dashboard, or alternatively, navigate to this URL https://console.aws.amazon.com/waf/home to bring up the WAF dashboard:

1. Assuming that this is the first time you are configuring WAF, you will be prompted by a welcome screen to either opt for AWS WAF or AWS Shield services. Select the Go to AWS WAF option. This will redirect you to the WAF dashboard, where we select the Configure web ACL option to get started.
2. Selecting the Configure web ACL option will bring up a Set up a web access control list (web ACL) wizard that will guide you through your first web ACL setup.
3. The first page on the wizard basically ...