May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
8h 5m
English
To protect the ELB service even further, we can introduce a WAF sandwich between two ELBs. When using the application load balancer, we also have the ability to augment the security of the ALB directly with a WAF integration option that has been supported since December 2016. The WAF will allow the service to catch any malicious traffic and throttle it at the perimeter, thus allowing our application to be protected from attackers and basic DoS attacks.
To increase security even further, we can use the AWS Shield or AWS Shield Advanced services to deliver full DDoS protection and mitigation to our application. When using Shield, all we are required to do is select the ELB service as the target for the Shield ...
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