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Tag: AWS WAF
Building well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access – part 2
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the Introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the example application. Security question […]
Amazon API Gateway adds support for AWS WAF
This post courtesy of Heitor Lessa, AWS Specialist Solutions Architect – Serverless Today, I’m excited to tell you about the Amazon API Gateway native integration with AWS WAF. Previously, if you wanted to secure your API in Amazon API Gateway with AWS WAF, you had to deploy a Regional API endpoint and use your own […]
Protecting your API using Amazon API Gateway and AWS WAF — Part 2
This post courtesy of Heitor Lessa, AWS Specialist Solutions Architect – Serverless In Part 1 of this blog, we described how to protect your API provided by Amazon API Gateway using AWS WAF. In this blog, we show how to use API keys between an Amazon CloudFront distribution and API Gateway to secure access to […]
Protecting your API using Amazon API Gateway and AWS WAF — Part I
This post courtesy of Thiago Morais, AWS Solutions Architect When you build web applications or expose any data externally, you probably look for a platform where you can build highly scalable, secure, and robust REST APIs. As APIs are publicly exposed, there are a number of best practices for providing a secure mechanism to consumers […]