Amazon Web Application Firewall – WAF

Amazon Web Application Firewall – WAF

AWS WAF is a firewall for online application that helps prevent common web exploits, compromise security, or excessive resource use in your web application or API. You may check how traffic reaches your apps by creating safe rules that traffic control and block common patterns of attacks, such as injection with SQL or cross-site scripting. You can also adapt rules that filter out certain patterns of traffic.

A pre-developed set of rules managed by AWS or AWS marketplace vendors to solve problems such as OWASP Top 10 Safety Risk and automated bots which consume extra resources, skew metrics, and can cause down time can be implemented rapidly with Managed Rules for AWS WAF. As new problems surface, these regulations are routinely modified. AWS WAF contains a complete API which may be used to automate security rules design, deployment and maintenance.

Benefits

  • Agile online attack protection: AWS WAF rule and updates take less than one minute to update security around your environment in case of problems. WAF provides hundreds of rules, which can inspect the incoming traffic on any part of the web request at a minimum latency level.
  • With controlled rules, save time: You may quickly start your Web application or APIs and secure them against typical attacks with Managed Rules for AWS WAF.
  • Improved visibility for Web traffic - AWS WAF provides visibility to your Web traffic almost in real time, which you may utilise to construct new Amazon CloudWatch rules or alerts. You have control over the measurements that are issued so that you can monitor the full incoming traffic from the rule level.
  • Easy to use and maintain: the application load balancer which fronts all your servers, the Amazon API Gateway to your REST API, or the AWS AppSync to your GraphQL API, is easy to deploy and safeguard apps used in Amazon CloudFront as part of your CDN solution.
  • Check, block and rate-level bots easily: You receive insight and control over common and all-round bot traffic to your applications with AWS WAF Bot Control.
  • Safety interwoven with application development: Either the AWS WAF API or AWS Management Console are available to configure all features in the AWS WAF. This enables your DevOps team to establish unique rules for applications that boost online security while developing applications.