Migrating a protection pack or web ACL: manual follow-up - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Shield Advanced, and AWS Shield network security director

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Migrating a protection pack or web ACL: manual follow-up

After the automated migration is complete, review the newly created protection pack or web ACL and fill in the components that the migration doesn't bring over for you. The following procedure covers the aspects of protection pack or web ACL management that the migration doesn't handle. For the list, see Migration caveats and limitations.

To finish the basic migration - manual steps

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS WAF console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/homev2.

  2. The console should automatically use the latest version of AWS WAF. To verify this, in the navigation pane, check that you can see the option Switch to AWS WAF Classic. If you see Switch to new AWS WAF, choose that to switch to the latest version.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose protection pack or web ACLs.

  4. In the protection pack or web ACLs page, locate your new protection pack or web ACL in the list for the Region where you created it. Choose the protection pack or web ACL's name to bring up the settings for the protection pack or web ACL.

  5. Review all of the settings for the new protection pack or web ACL against your prior AWS WAF Classic web ACL. By default, logging and protected resource associations are disabled. You enable those when you're ready to switch over.

  6. If your AWS WAF Classic protection pack or web ACL had a managed rule group, the rule group inclusion wasn't brought over in the migration. You can add managed rule groups to the new protection pack or web ACL. Review the information about managed rule groups, including the list of AWS Managed Rules that are available with the new version of AWS WAF, at Using managed rule groups in AWS WAF. To add a managed rule group, do the following:

    1. In your protection pack or web ACL settings page, choose the protection pack or web ACL Rules tab.

    2. Choose Add rules, then choose Add managed rule groups.

    3. Expand the listing for the vendor of your choice and select the rule groups that you want to add. For AWS Marketplace sellers, you might need to subscribe to the rule groups. For more information about using managed rule groups in your protection pack or web ACL, see Using managed rule groups in AWS WAF and Using protection pack or web ACLs with rules and rule groups in AWS WAF.

After you finish the basic migration process, we recommend that you review your needs and consider additional options, to be sure that the new configuration is as efficient as possible and that it's using the latest available security options. See Migrating a protection pack or web ACL: additional considerations.