Security Automations for AWS WAF

Deploy a set of preconfigured AWS WAF rules to filter common web-based attacks

Overview

Security Automations for AWS WAF automatically deploys a set of AWS WAF (web application firewall) rules that filter common web-based attacks. You can select from preconfigured protective features that define the rules included in an AWS WAF web access control list (ACL). Once deployed, AWS WAF protects your Amazon CloudFront distributions or Application Load Balancers by inspecting web requests.

You can use AWS WAF to create custom, application-specific rules that block attack patterns to help ensure application availability, secure resources, and prevent excessive resource consumption.

This AWS Solution supports the latest version of the AWS WAF (AWS WAFV2) service API.

Benefits

Automatic WAF rules configuration

Automatically launch and configure the AWS WAF settings and protective features that you choose to include during initial deployment by using the AWS CloudFormation template.

Log analysis

Activate AWS CloudFormation to provision an Amazon Athena query and a scheduled AWS Lambda function responsible for orchestrating Athena, processing result output, and updating AWS WAF.

Build your own monitoring dashboard

Build a customized dashboard to visualize Amazon CloudWatch metrics emitted by this solution, and gain insights into the pattern of attacks and protection provided by AWS WAF.

Technical details

You can automatically deploy this architecture using the implementation guide and the accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.

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