In this article, I describe and show the AWS WAF configuration in Terraform for a few use cases that may come in handy for your implementation. How to Implement Bot Control, Scope-down Statements, Allow US-only traffic, and/or Whitelist Exceptions to Rules Based on Whitelisted IPs or Header Information By: Brandon Prasnicki | Senior Cloud ArchitectĪWS 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. In addition to these new resources you will need a VPC, Subnet, Route Table, Route Table Association, and Internet Gateway.Tuning Your AWS WAF Configuration in Terraform The Terraform configuration below demonstrates how the Terraform AWS provider can be used to configure an AWS Network Firewall VPC Firewall, Firewall Policy, and Firewall Rule Group with the proper settings and attributes. The latest version of the Terraform AWS provider.In order to try out this feature, you will need: In order to use AWS Network Firewall in the Terraform AWS provider, you will need to employ three new resources, aws_networkfirewall_firewall_policy, aws_networkfirewall_firewall, and aws_networkfirewall_rule_group, along with additional attributes to existing resources. » Using AWS Network Firewall in the Terraform AWS Provider AWS Network Firewall works together with AWS Firewall Manager so you can build policies based on AWS Network Firewall rules and then centrally apply those policies across your VPCs and accounts.įor additional information regarding AWS Network Firewall, please consult the blog post from AWS as well as the AWS Network Firewall service documentation. You can also import rules you’ve already written in common open source rule formats as well as enable integrations with managed intelligence feeds sourced by AWS partners.
AWS Network Firewall’s flexible rules engine lets you define firewall rules that provide fine-grained control over network traffic, such as blocking outbound Server Message Block (SMB) requests to prevent the spread of malicious activity. » How It WorksĪWS Network Firewall can be set up via the AWS console with just a few clicks and scales automatically with your network traffic so you don't have to worry about deploying and managing any infrastructure. AWS Network Firewall is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all of your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).
In partnership with AWS, we are pleased to announce launch day support for the AWS Network Firewall service within the Terraform AWS Provider.
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