Introduction to AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)

AWS Web Application Firewall or WAF helps protect your publicly facing endpoints from bad actors. In this video, I explain how WAF works, why it's useful, and how to set up your first firewall.
00:31 Example of how AWS WAF Helps Secure Your Application
01:58 List of Supports Services
02:17 Important WAF Concepts - Web ACLs, Rules, Rule Groups
04:36 How to Setup WAF
07:42 Creating a Web ACL
10:11 Creating WAF Rules
16:40 Rule Priorities
16:55 Web ACL Capacity Units
18:55 Testing our WAF
21:00 AWS WAF Dashboard and Metrics
27:55 Cleaning up AWS WAF
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[@user-dz4sj1mk5q]

Excellent as always. Thank you for your content on WAF.
One question: I guess having a list of IPs and using the NOT operator for the rule would implement a "white list" of IPs, correct?

[@George-mk7lp]

yes you can make an IP whitelist by configuring a rule that blocks requests from IP addresses not in your specified list. Essentially, you would use the NOT operator with a list of allowed IPs to deny access to any IP addresses not explicitly allowed.

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