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AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
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Is it possible via CLI to locate WAF ACLs that are not associated with any resource. These have a cost associated with them however the API responses do not indicate association or not. The only mea...
I've seen some malicious requests that are slipping through WAF, they have a pattern (as in the urls requested are random, but many end with .htm) and are generating 404 errors, but they are still com...

I noticed that I have incurred charges for WAF even though I have not configured it. Could you please help me unde...
Why does my ALB automatically detach from AWS WAF after some time, while my API Gateway remains attached, and how can I troubleshoot and resolve this issue?
Setup:
- I have WAF with default of block rule.
- I have cloudfront distribution which has two custom origins (maintenance and working app) and each has respective cache behavior.
- I set error respon...
Our environments are occasionally hit with a slew of malicious requests, probably by some vulnerability scanner. We have taken to blocking all requests that don't go through our cloudflare-protected d...
I tried contacting account support but they said they can't help and to contact technical support. Our plan does not include technical support. Am I unable to access the SDK without technical support?
As the title says, do you pay for WAF Web ACL, even if no resource associated?
Is it possible to automatically trigger WAF on an ALB if a certain condition is met on a CloudWatch alarm? And also turn it off again, if condition not met anymore (based status change on alarm).
Whe...
I created a **custom** WAF rule (linked to my CloudFront distribution) to block requests with a body larger than 20MB.
This is to prevent users from uploading files larger than 20MB via **CloudFront...
**Hi team,**
I was following the instructions in this article: [AWS WAF Oversize Request Components](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-oversize-request-components.html#waf-ove...
Hello,
in recent DDoS attack the customer noticed there were several million of the GET requests asking for the same URI. Does it make sense and how to create a WAF rule that will do a rate limit if t...