AWS WAF Flashcards
1
Q
What does WAF stand for?
A
Web Application Firewall
2
Q
What does AWS WAF let you do?
A
- 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
3
Q
What are some of the conditions you can configure in AWS WAF?
A
- what IP addresses are allowed to make a request
- what query string parameters need to be passed for the request to be allowed
4
Q
At its most basic level, AWS WAF allows for what three types of behavior?
A
- 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
5
Q
How can AWS help you block malicious IP addresses?
A
- AWS WAF
- Network ACLs
6
Q
What is returned if AWS WAF does not allow your content to be received?
A
an HTTP 403 error code