AWS WAF, AWS Shield , AWS Firewall Manager
- WAF (Web Application Firewall) lets us monitor HTTP/ HTTPS requests that are forwarded to Amazon API Gateway REST API, an Application Load balancer or AWS Cloudfront distribution.
- WAF also lets us control access to our content.
- AWS WAF lets us choose one of the following behaviors
- Allow all requests except the ones we specify
- Block all request except the ones we specify
- Count the request that match the properties you specify
- Navigate to the WAF console
- AWS Shield is used for additional protection against DDos attacks, AWS offers two plans
- AWS Shield Standard:
- Enabled by default to all AWS users at no extra cost
- AWS Shield Advanced:
- This provides expanded DDoS attack protection for our ec2 instances, Elastic load baalncers, Cloudfront distributions and Route 53 hosted zones
- This incurs extra cost
- AWS Shield Standard:
- AWS Firewall manager simplifes your adminstration and mainentance task across multiple accounts and resources for AWS WAF rulesm AWS Shield Advanced protections and AWS VPC Security Groups
AWS Steps functions
- AWS Step functions is a serverless orchestration service that combine AWS Lambda functions and other service to build workflows or state machines
- If your application has a workflow to be built as a state machine and if you have lambda functions to handle the state transitions then we can use step functions
- Step functions are developed in State Language defined by AWS Refer Here
