04. AWS Web Application Firewall

CloudEng Course1 Lesson4 WAF V1

AWS WAF

AWS WAF (or AWS Web Application Firewall) provides a firewall that protects your web applications.

WAF can stop common web attacks by reviewing the data being sent to your application and stopping well-known attacks.

Tips

  • WAF is found under the Security, Identity, & Compliance sectin on the AWS Managemen Console.
  • WAF can protect web sites not hosted in AWS through Cloud Front.
  • You can configure CloudFront to present a custom error page when requests are blocked.

Identify the type of web attacks that AWS WAF prevents. Choose two.
SOLUTION:
  • SQL injection
  • Cross-site scripting

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