AWS Security Blog
Tag: Amazon CloudFront
Register for and Attend This March 2 Webinar—Using AWS WAF and Lambda for Automatic Protection
Update: The video and slides from the webinar are now available. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Using AWS WAF and Lambda for Automatic Protection on Wednesday, March 2. This webinar will start at 10:00 A.M. and end at 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time (UTC-8). AWS WAF Software Development Manager Nathan Dye […]
How to Configure Rate-Based Blacklisting with AWS WAF and AWS Lambda
Note from July 3, 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. One security challenge you may have faced is how to prevent your web servers from being flooded by unwanted requests, or scanning tools such as bots and […]
How to Automatically Update Your Security Groups for Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF by Using AWS Lambda
July 29, 2025: This blog post is outdated. Use CloudFront’s managed prefix list for Security Groups instead of the Lambda solution. CloudFront now supports VPC origins, allowing secure connectivity to private VPC resources. For details on managed prefix lists, see this post. For VPC origins implementation guide, refer to this post. April 1, 2021: Before […]
Register for and Attend This August 20 Webinar–Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency
As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency on Thursday, August 20. This webinar will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time (UTC-7). AWS Security Solutions Architect Jonathan Desrocher will outline how to use AWS services like Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudFront, […]