AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Introducing AWS Web Application Firewall

Security has always been, and always will be, a key concern for a lot of organizations that run their workloads and applications on the cloud. That is precisely why AWS offers a wide assortment of managed services that you, as a cloud administrator, should leverage in order to protect and safeguard your workloads from any compromises or threats. In this section, we are going to explore one such simple, yet really powerful, service, called AWS WAF, or Web Application Firewall.

AWS WAF is basically a firewall that helps you to protect your internet-facing applications from common web-based threats and exploits. It is basically a service that enables you to specify a set of web security rules or ACLs ...