Web Application Firewall
Explore AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to understand how it secures web applications by inspecting incoming requests and applying customizable rules against threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. This lesson helps you configure WAF with Web ACLs and best practices to enhance cloud application protection.
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AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect our web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing us to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that we define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting. New rules can be deployed within minutes, letting us respond quickly to changing traffic patterns.
How AWS WAF works
When AWS services receive requests for websites, the requests are forwarded to AWS WAF for inspection against defined rules. Once a request meets a condition defined in the rules, AWS WAF instructs the ...