Bot Control example: Simple configuration - 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.

Bot Control example: Simple configuration

The following JSON listing shows an example protection pack or web ACL with an AWS WAF Bot Control managed rule group. Note the visibility configuration, which causes AWS WAF to store request samples and metrics for monitoring purposes. 

{
  "Name": "Bot-WebACL",
  "Id": "...",
  "ARN": "...",
  "DefaultAction": {
    "Allow": {}
  },
  "Description": "Bot-WebACL",
  "Rules": [
      {
        ...
      },
      {
         "Name": "AWS-AWSBotControl-Example",
         "Priority": 5,
         "Statement": {
            "ManagedRuleGroupStatement": {
               "VendorName": "AWS",
               "Name": "AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet",
               "ManagedRuleGroupConfigs": [
                 {
                   "AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet": {
                     "InspectionLevel": "COMMON"
                   }
                 }
               ],
               "RuleActionOverrides": [],
               "ExcludedRules": []
            },
            "VisibilityConfig": {
               "SampledRequestsEnabled": true,
               "CloudWatchMetricsEnabled": true,
               "MetricName": "AWS-AWSBotControl-Example"
             }
          }
      }
    ],
    "VisibilityConfig": {
      ...
    },
    "Capacity": 1496,
    "ManagedByFirewallManager": false,
    "RetrofittedByFirewallManager": false
}