A discrete API Gateway endpoint (embedded in the web application) triggers a custom AWS Lambda function, which intercepts the suspicious request and adds the source IP address to the AWS WAF block list. Honeypot (A): This component creates a honeypot to lure and deflect content scrapers and bad bots. The protective functions you choose to activate will determine the custom rules that are added to your web ACL.ĪWS WAF Security Automations solution architecture The diagram below presents the architecture you can build using the solution's implementation guide and accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.Īt the core of the design is an AWS WAF web ACL that acts as central inspection and decision point for all incoming requests. The AWS WAF Security Automations solution provides fine-grained control over the requests attempting to access your web application.

Once the solution is deployed, AWS WAF will begin inspecting web requests to the user’s existing Amazon CloudFront distributions or Application Load Balancers, and block them when applicable. Users can select from preconfigured protective features that define the rules included in an AWS WAF web access control list (web ACL), as depicted in the image to the right. To simplify this process, AWS offers a solution that uses AWS CloudFormation to automatically deploy a set of AWS WAF rules designed to filter common web-based attacks. AWS WAF can be completely administered via APIs which makes security automation easy, enabling rapid rule propagation and fast incident response.Ĭonfiguring a web application firewall strategy can be challenging and burdensome to large and small organizations alike, especially for those who do not have dedicated security teams.

What does this AWS Solution do?ĪWS WAF is a web application firewall that enables customers to quickly create custom, application-specific rules that block common attack patterns that can affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.

It is not so good for deploying cloudformation will take more than 15 min, and we use terraform writing our infrastructure.

This module is based on AWS WAF Security Automations written in cloudformation.

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