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Automating WAF Web ACL deployments using CloudFormation

Working with web ACLs can be really difficult at times, especially when you have a large, distributed environment and don't necessarily have a dedicated security team to create and manage the rules on a regular basis. Luckily for us, AWS makes things far simpler by providing easy to use and customize CloudFormation templates that can spin up a single web ACL, with all the basic security conditions configured, in a mere matter of minutes! The collective solution is called AWS WAF Security Automations, and, is available free of charge for all to use. All the end user has to do is specify which security feature is required, configure that, and deploy the solution! The rest is completely ...