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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

by Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
690 pages
16h
English
Packt Publishing
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Concepts and terminologies

As discussed briefly, WAF can be enabled over your standard ALBs and over your CloudFront distributions. But before we get started with configuring WAF and its various rules and ACLs, we first need to understand some of its commonly used terms and terminologies:

  • Conditions: Conditions form the core of your WAF rulesets. These are basically configurable characteristics that you want WAF to monitor in each of your incoming web requests. At the time of writing this book, WAF supports the following list of conditions:
    • IP match: You can use this condition to check whether the incoming web request originated from a specified black/whitelisted IP addresses or not. You can then plot corresponding actions to be performed ...
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