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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

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

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

Getting started with WAF


In this section, we are going to look at a few simple and easy-to-follow steps for getting started with AWS WAF. For demonstration purposes, we will be leveraging the same environments and application that we deployed from our previous chapter here, so, if you haven't gone through the use case, this might be a good time for a quick revisit!

In the previous chapter, we leveraged Elastic Beanstalk as well as Elastic File System services to deploy a scalable and highly available WordPress application over the internet. In this section, we will leverage the same setup and secure it even further by introducing AWS WAF into it. Why use WAF for our WordPress application? Well, the simplest answer is to completely abstract the security checks from the underlying web server instance(s), and instead place the security checks at the point of entry of our application, as depicted in the following diagram:

To get started, you will first need to ensure that your WordPress application...