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Rajesh Daswani
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Rajesh Daswani

Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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Protecting cloud resources and applications with AWS WAF and AWS Shield

AWS offers various security tools and services to help protect your cloud workloads from attacks. We will look at two of these services in this section – AWS WAF and AWS Shield.

Protecting applications with AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a web application firewall designed to protect any applications that are made available via Amazon CloudFront, the Amazon API Gateway REST API, application load balancers, or the AWS AppSync GraphQL API.

AWS WAF can help protect applications at layer 7 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, which helps you monitor and protect traffic over HTTP and HTTPS. This allows you to protect your content from common web exploits, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

You use AWS WAF to control access to your content by specifying web access control lists (web ACLs). You define rules that specify an inspection criterion with an action to take if a web request meets...

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Rajesh Daswani

Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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