AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
AWS WAF: web app firewall
15/Apr/2021
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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Mocagon: Movement area, Internet scope [AWS Poster]
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Full-name: AWS Web Application Firewall
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Provides: web app firewall
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Resource: webacl
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Year: 2015
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Products that are often seen with AWS WAF, descending order of frequency:
| Prefix | Name | Description |
| Amazon | CloudFront | CDN |
| Amazon | API Gateway | API gateway |
| AWS | Shield | DDoS protection |
| AWS | CloudFormation | infra as code (decl) |
| Amazon | Route 53 | DNS |
| Amazon | Simple Storage Service (S3) | object storage |
| AWS | Support | support/help |
| AWS | Firewall Manager | firewall management |
| Amazon | Kinesis | stream processing |
| AWS | Lambda | function runtime |
Products that are related in Moca:
| Prefix | Name | Description |
| AWS | Certificate Manager (ACM) | SSL/TLS certificates |
| AWS | Firewall Manager | firewall management |
| AWS | Network Firewall | layer 3-7 network protection |
| AWS | Shield | DDoS protection |
| AWS | Web Application Firewall (WAF) | web app firewall |
News
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2021/02/12: AWS WAF adds support for JSON parsing and inspection
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2020/12/22: AWS WAF Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
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2020/11/27: AWS Transfer Family supports AWS WAF for identity provider integrations
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2020/10/01: AWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAF
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2020/09/30: AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management Solution is Generally Available
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2020/09/01: AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced Now Available in Africa (Cape Town) and EU (Milano)
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2020/07/30: AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs
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2020/07/09: AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules
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2020/07/09: AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API
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2020/07/09: Support for X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header is now available for AWS WAF
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2020/04/29: AWS WAF now supports migration wizard for converting WAF rules from AWS WAF Classic
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2020/04/02: AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain)
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2020/03/31: AWS Firewall Manager support for AWS WAF and AWS Managed Rules
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2020/03/06: AWS WAF adds Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules
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2019/12/19: AWS WAF improves request logging for context around matched rules
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2019/11/25: Introducing AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF
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2019/10/23: AWS Managed Services adds support for 29 additional AWS Services
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2019/08/28: Lower Threshold for AWS WAF Rate-based Rules
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2019/04/30: AWS WAF Security Automations Now Supports Log Analysis
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2019/03/13: AWS WAF Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
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2019/03/08: AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced Now Available in Four New Regions
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2018/12/21: Announcing rule group exception for Managed Rules for AWS WAF
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2018/12/20: The AWS WAF Security Automations solution now includes a monitoring dashboard
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2018/11/05: Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS WAF
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2018/08/31: AWS WAF Launches New Comprehensive Logging Functionality
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2017/11/29: Ready-to-Use Managed Rules Now Available on AWS WAF
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2017/11/15: AWS Config Adds Support for AWS WAF and Amazon CloudFront
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2017/10/16: AWS WAF Now Supports Geographic Match
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2017/10/16: AWS WAF Now Supports Regular Expressions (Regex)