AWS WAF Getting Started

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor the HTTP(S) requests that are forwarded to your protected web application resources.

In this course, you will learn how to do the following:

• Describe how AWS WAF works
• Identify the technical concepts of AWS WAF
• List typical use cases for AWS WAF
• Specify what it would take to implement AWS WAF in a real-world scenario
• Recognize the benefits of AWS WAF
• Explain the cost structure of AWS WAF

Activities

• Presentation
• Architecture overview
• Technical demos

Course objectives

• Describe how AWS WAF works
• Identify the technical concepts of AWS WAF
• Specify what it would take to implement AWS WAF in a real-world scenario
• Recognize the benefits of AWS WAF
• Explain the cost structure of AWS WAF

Intended audience

• Architects
• Cloud operators
• Developers
• DevOps engineers
• Infrastructure engineers
• Pre-sales consultants
• Security engineers
• Trainers

Recommended Skills

• AWS Cloud Essentials
• AWS Cloud Operations

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to AWS WAF

• What does AWS WAF do?
• What problems does AWS WAF solve?
• What are the benefits of AWS WAF?
• How much does AWS WAF cost?

Module 2: Architecture and Use Cases

• How is AWS WAF used to architect a cloud solution?
• What additional architecture features could impact your service?
• What are the basic technical concepts of AWS WAF?
• What are typical use cases for AWS WAF?
• What else should I keep in mind about AWS WAF?

Module 3: Configuring and Testing AWS WAF

• How do I manually create an AWS WAF instance on the AWS Management Console?
• How do I create an Amazon API Gateway instance on the AWS Management Console?
• How do I create an AWS WAF instance and web ACL on the AWS Management Console?
• How do I add a managed rule group to a web ACL?
• How do I clean up the configured resources?