Category: AWS WAF

In this post, I discuss how you can use recent enhancements in AWS WAF to manage a multi-layer web application security enforcement policy. These enhancements will help you to maintain and deploy web application firewall configurations across deployment stages and across different types of applications. The post is in two parts. This first part describes […]

December 2, 2024: This post has been updated to reflect the transition to WAFV2, with aligned 1:1 mapping from Classic partner-managed rules to partner-managed rules. AWS WAF Classic support will end on September 30, 2025. In November 2019, Amazon launched a new version of AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) that offers a richer and easier […]

Like the infrastructure your applications are built on, security infrastructure can be handled using infrastructure as code (IAC) and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). In this post, I’ll show you how to build a CI/CD pipeline using AWS Developer Tools and HashiCorp’s Terraform platform as an IAC tool for AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) deployments. AWS […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, we’ll share conversations we’e had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current […]

In an earlier post, Enabling serverless security analytics using AWS WAF full logs, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight, published on March 28, 2019, the authors showed you how to stream WAF logs with Amazon Kinesis Firehose for visualization using QuickSight. This approach used no filtering of the logs so that you could visualize the full […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Log analysis is essential for understanding the effectiveness of any security solution. It can be valuable for day-to-day troubleshooting and also for your long-term understanding of how your security environment is performing. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that […]

April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. When you’re implementing security measures across your AWS resources, you should use a holistic approach that incorporates controls across multiple areas. In the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Security perspective whitepaper, we define these controls across four categories. Directive controls. Establish the […]

  October 1, 2017, update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Online Tech Talks series, AWS will present How to Use AWS WAF to Mitigate OWASP Top 10 Attacks on Thursday, September 28. This tech talk will start at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time and end at […]

Today, we released a new security whitepaper: Use AWS WAF to Mitigate OWASP’s Top 10 Web Application Vulnerabilities. This whitepaper describes how you can use AWS WAF, a web application firewall, to address the top application security flaws as named by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Using AWS WAF, you can write rules to […]

Note from July 4, 2017: The solution in this post has been integrated into AWS WAF Security Automations, and AWS maintains up-to-date solution code in the companion GitHub repository.   AWS WAF is a web application firewall that integrates closely with Amazon CloudFront (AWS’s content delivery network [CDN]). AWS WAF gives you control to allow or block […]