Options for stateful rules in Network Firewall - AWS Network Firewall

Options for stateful rules in Network Firewall

A stateful rule group is a rule group that uses Suricata compatible intrusion prevention system (IPS) specifications. Suricata is an open source network IPS that includes a standard rule-based language for stateful network traffic inspection.

When you create a Network Firewall stateful rule group from Suricata compatible rules, you can provide the rules to the rule group creation operation in one of the following ways:

  • Standard, simple rule group specification – With this option, Network Firewall translates your specification into Suricata compatible rules and then passes the resulting rule strings to Suricata for processing.

  • Domain list rule specification – With this option, Network Firewall translates your rule specification into Suricata compatible rules and then passes the resulting rule strings to Suricata for processing.

  • Rule strings that are written in Suricata compatible syntax – When you use this option, Network Firewall passes your rule strings to Suricata for processing.

The sections that follow provide details for each of these options.