WafWebAcl

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Resource Overview

An AWS WAF Web ACL is the top-level container for a set of rules applied to a web application. Web ACLs combine multiple rule groups and rules and define the order in which web requests are evaluated. This enables enhanced web application security by allowing, blocking, or counting requests.

Associated Resources

Parent Resources

• Base
• Region

Connected Resources

• CloudFrontDistribution

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Resource Configuration

Basic Settings

• scope : Scope where the Web ACL is applied - REGIONAL, CLOUDFRONT
• 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_web_acl (Terraform)