Migrating a protection pack or web ACL: switchover - 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 a protection pack or web ACL: switchover

After you've verified your new protection pack or web ACL settings, you can start to use it in place of your AWS WAF Classic protection pack or web ACL.

To begin using your new AWS WAF protection pack or web ACL

  1. Associate the AWS WAF protection pack or web ACL with the resources that you want to protect, following the guidance at Associating or disassociating protection with an AWS resource. This automatically disassociates the resources from the old protection pack or web ACL.

    The switch can take from a few seconds to a number of minutes to propagate. During this time, some requests might be processed by the old protection pack or web ACL and others by the new protection pack or web ACL. Your resources will be protected throughout the switch, but you might notice inconsistencies in request handling until it's complete.

  2. Configure logging for the new protection pack or web ACL, following the guidance at Logging AWS WAF protection pack or web ACL traffic.

  3. (Optional) If your AWS WAF Classic protection pack or web ACL is no longer associated with any resources, consider removing it entirely from AWS WAF Classic. For information, see Deleting a Web ACL.