Getting Started with AWS WAF

Steps for AWS WAF

1

Set up and log into your AWS account

With AWS WAF, you can create a web access control list (web ACL) to block or allow certain web requests

2

Create a web access control list (web ACL)

Learn more in the documentation.

3

Add conditions to a rule

Follow our Getting Started Guide to start using AWS WAF in a few clicks.

Tutorials

One of the ways in which customers use AWS WAF is to automate security using AWS Lambda, which can analyze web logs and identify malicious requests and automatically update security rules. The following tutorials take care of going through the individual steps of configuring AWS WAF using AWS CloudFormation and include Lambda scripts to help get started protecting your web applications.