Overview#

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is an Amazon Web Services offering that allows Monitoring the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to an AWS API Gateway, AWS CloudFront or an AWS Application Load Balancer.

AWS Web Application Firewall also lets you control access to your content. Based on conditions that you specify, such as the IP Address that requests originate from or the values of URI Query strings, AWS API Gateway, AWS CloudFront or AWS Application Load Balancer Response to requests either with the requested content or with an HTTP 403 status code (Forbidden). You also can configure AWS CloudFront to return a custom error page when a request is blocked.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• AWS Application Load Balancer
• Amazon Web Services

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• [#1] - AWS Firewall Manager - based on information obtained 2019-07-08