Securing Your Web Application with AWS WAF and AWS Shield

This is the second article in a series. If you don't have the base architecture built and you would like to follow along, please read this article first.

In this article, we'll explore a practical use case for detecting and managing threats targeting a web application hosted on AWS. We'll leverage the power of AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and AWS Shield to protect our application from common web exploits and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. With our base architecture build, …

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