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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing AWS Web Application Firewall


Security has always been, and always will be, a key concern for a lot of organizations that run their workloads and applications on the cloud. That is precisely why AWS offers a wide assortment of managed services that you, as a cloud administrator, should leverage in order to protect and safeguard your workloads from any compromises or threats. In this section, we are going to explore one such simple, yet really powerful, service, called AWS WAF, or Web Application Firewall.

AWS WAF is basically a firewall that helps you to protect your internet-facing applications from common web-based threats and exploits. It is basically a service that enables you to specify a set of web security rules or ACLs that can allow or restrict a certain type of web traffic across Amazon CloudFront as well as the Application Load Balancer (ALB). As of now, WAF can be used to create customized rules that can safeguard your applications against attacks, such as SQL injections...