**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 console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/working-with-console.html). 

# Configuring alarms and notifications with Shield Advanced and Amazon SNS
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This page provides instructions to optionally configure Amazon Simple Notification Service notifications for detected Amazon CloudWatch alarms and rate-based rule activity. You can use these to receive notification when Shield detects an event on a protected resource or when a rate-limit configured in a rate-based rule is exceeded. 

For information about Shield Advanced CloudWatch metrics, see [AWS Shield Advanced metrics](shield-metrics.md). For information about Amazon SNS, see the [Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/). 

**To configure alarms and notifications**

1. Select the Amazon SNS topics that you want notification for. You can use a single Amazon SNS topic for all protected resources and rate-based rules, or you can choose different topics, customized to your organization. For example, you can create an SNS topic for each team that's responsible for incident response for a specific set of resources.

1. Choose **Next**. The console wizard advances to the resource protection review page.