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Web application firewall (WAF)

Web application firewall (WAF) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Prep (February 2025)

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Web application firewall (WAF)

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- When it comes to the security of your web application servers that is servers that run the HTTP or HTTPS protocol for application processing. You're going to need a solution that can control access to those servers, and this is something we typically call a Web Application Firewall or a WAF. This kind of solution allows you to determine what kind of access can get into that web application server, which is absolutely key. You will find it in the security and identity category within your services in AWS. Now, this particular Web Application Firewall, the beauty of it is it's a component that's deployed within AWS. It's not really an appliance you have to worry about or even an instance you have to start, it's just something you say, "I want to configure this on my instances or my S3 buckets or anything else that's hosting HTTP or https content." Now it controls access to those HTTP and HTTPS servers so it's based on…

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