AWS WAF: 7 Things You GOT To Know 😳 | Web Application Firewall

AWS Web Application Firewall or WAF protects your web applications from common internet exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

Hi Guys, this is Abi from GokceDB and in this video, you are going to learn 7 things about the Web Application Firewall in AWS. Let's get into it.

1. AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can create rules to filter web traffic based on conditions that include IP addresses, HTTP headers, and custom URIs.

2. WAF allows you to create a centralized set of rules that you can deploy across multiple web applications. You can build these rules using the visual rule builder or JSON code. You also have the option to deploy managed rules maintained by either AWS or AWS Marketplace sellers.

3. WAF Bot Control is a managed rule group that gives you control over common bot traffic that can consume excess resources. With just a few clicks, you can block or rate-limit, common bots such as scrapers, scanners, and crawlers. You do have the option to allow good bots, such as status monitors and search engines.

4. WAF Fraud Control & Account Takeover Prevention is a managed rule group that monitors your application’s login page for unauthorized access. This can help protect against credential stuffing attacks and brute-force login attempts.

5. AWS WAF can be completely controlled via APIs. This gives you the ability to create and maintain rules automatically and incorporate them into your development process. You can also use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy and provision WAF automatically.

6. The Web Application Firewall provides real-time metrics and captures raw requests that include details such as IP addresses, geo-locations, URIs, User-Agent, and Referrers. The service is fully integrated with CloudWatch which makes it easy to set up custom alarms when certain thresholds are exceeded.

7. You can centrally configure and manage AWS WAF deployments across multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Firewall Manager which automatically audits and informs your security team whenever there is a policy violation.

In summary, AWS Web Application Firewall helps you protect against common web exploits and lets you easily block or rate-limit malicious internet bots.

There you have it.