WafRuleGroup

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Resource Overview

An AWS WAF Rule Group is a collection of rules used in the Web Application Firewall. Rule groups allow multiple rules to be bundled and applied to web applications, improving reusability and management efficiency. Rule groups control key aspects of web application security and can allow, block, or count requests.

Associated Resources

Parent Resources

• Base
• Region

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Resource Configuration

Basic Settings

• scope : Scope where the rule group is applied - REGIONAL, CLOUDFRONT
• capacity : Web ACL capacity units (WCU) required for the rule group
• cloudwatch_metrics_enabled : Whether to enable CloudWatch metrics - true, false
• metric_name : CloudWatch metric name; only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores allowed, 1 ~ 128 characters
• sampled_requests_enabled : Whether to store sampled web requests that match rules - true, false

Tags

• tag : Tags used to categorize the resource

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References

• AWS WAF Features (AWS)
• AWS WAF Pricing (AWS)
• aws_waf_rule_group (Terraform)