AWS Firewall Manager prerequisites - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Shield Advanced, and AWS Shield network security director

Introducing a new console experience for AWS WAF

You can now use the updated experience to access AWS WAF functionality anywhere in the console. For more details, see Working with the updated console experience.

AWS Firewall Manager prerequisites

This topic shows you how to get ready to administer AWS Firewall Manager. You use one Firewall Manager administrator account to manage all Firewall Manager security policies for your organization in AWS Organizations. Except where noted, perform the prerequisite steps using the account that you will use as the Firewall Manager administrator.

Before you use Firewall Manager for the first time, perform the following steps in sequence.

After you follow these steps, you can configure Firewall Manager to begin protecting your resources. For more information, see Setting up AWS Firewall Manager​ AWS WAF policies.