AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS applications that are promoted to Amazon CloudFront and gives you regulate path to your content. Based on circumstances that you stipulate, such as the IP addresses that grants originate from or the consequences of query series, CloudFront returns to applications either with the petitioned content or with an HTTP 403 situation code (Forbidden). You can further configure CloudFront to restore a pattern failure page when an application is obstructed.
Advantages of utilizing WAF:
Further security versus web initiatives relating to circumstances that you designate. You can describe situations by managing characteristics of web inquiries such as the IP address that the applications originate from, the rates in headers, chains that rise in the applications, and the presence of hateful SQL code in the call, which is recognized as SQL injection.
Rules that you can reuse for various network appeals
Real-time metrics and examined web demands
Computerized command practicing the AWS WAF API
