How to integrate WAF with an EC2 instance?

I was looking into using AWS's Web Application Firewall, but it can only be used by an elastic load balancer or a CloudFront distribution. How might I go about implementing a WAF with my EC2 that is serving my website?

Topics: Security, Identity, & Compliance
Tags: AWS WAF
Language: English

jstumbaugh

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Not supported directly, currently needs to be behind ALB or CloudFront. Here is a tutorial that walks through protecting EC2 instances.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/tutorials-ddos-cross-service.html

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