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Does AWS WAF prevent GET flood?


Let's say I have an imaginary website: https://myimaginarywebsite.com.

If I try to exploit it, and I make massive concurrent GET requests (source is just one ip), would WAF have a feature to prevent this?

Since this is technically valid traffic but abnormal pattern, I'm curious how AWS WAF handles this.

Is there an already built-in WAF feature we can just add to prevent this, or Do we have still have to tune this in WAF?


Solution

  • Yes, WAF can handle HTTP floods with rate based rules.

    The AWS Security Automations quick start found here, and associated docs found here, provide a great template starting point and example of some of the features you can configure in AWS WAF.