AWS WAF

Question 1

What does WAF stand for?

Answer 1

Web Application Firewall

Question 2

What does AWS WAF let you do?

Answer 2

• Lets you monitor HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to CloudFront, an Application Load Balancer or API Gateway
• More generally, lets you control access to your content

Question 3

What are some of the conditions you can configure in AWS WAF?

Answer 3

• what IP addresses are allowed to make a request
• what query string parameters need to be passed for the request too be allowed

Question 4

At its most basic level, AWS WAF allows for what three types of behavior?

Answer 4

• Allow all requests except the ones you specify
• Block all requests except the ones you specify
• Count the requests that match the properties you specify

Question 5

How can AWS help you block malicious IP addresses?

Answer 5

• AWS WAF
• Network ACLs

Question 6

What is returned if AWS WAF does not allow your content to be received?

Answer 6

an HTTP 403 error code