Migrating your AWS WAF Classic resources to AWS WAF - 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.

Migrating your AWS WAF Classic resources to AWS WAF

Warning

AWS WAF Classic is is going through a planned end-of-life process. Refer to your AWS Health dashboard for the milestones and dates specific to your Region.

Note

This is AWS WAF documentation. You should only use this version if you created AWS WAF resources, like rules and web ACLs, in AWS WAF prior to November 2019, and you have not migrated them over to the latest version yet. To migrate your web ACLs, see Migrating your AWS WAF Classic resources to AWS WAF.

For the latest version of AWS WAF, see AWS WAF.

This section provides guidance for migrating your rules and protection pack or web ACLs from AWS WAF Classic to AWS WAF. AWS WAF was released in November 2019. If you created resources like rules and protection pack or web ACLs using AWS WAF Classic, you either need to work with them using AWS WAF Classic or migrate them to this latest version.

Warning

AWS WAF Classic support will end on September 30, 2025.

Before you start your migration work, familiarize yourself with AWS WAF by reading through AWS WAF.