Hello, and welcome to this course where I shall be discussing the AWS Web Application Firewall Service, more commonly known as AWS WAF, which has been designed to help protect your web applications from external malicious activity. I'll be looking at the basics of the service before moving on to the components, followed by a demonstration of its configuration. My name is Stuart Scott, I'm the AWS Content Director here at Cloud Academy.

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This course is intended for security architects, technical engineers, and website administrators who have responsibility for ensuring web applications and websites are not compromised or exploited within their environment. This course is also useful for anyone who requires a deeper understanding of the AWS WAF service in preparation for an AWS certification.

This course will provide you with the following: an understanding of what AWS WAF is and what it does, knowledge of the different components that make up the WAF service and how to create and configure a web ACL that is associated with an Amazon CloudFront Distribution.

As you progress through this course, it would be beneficial to have an understanding of Amazon CloudFront and some basic security knowledge from a literacy point of view. Feedback on our courses here at Cloud Academy is valuable to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you can contact support@cloudeacademy.com.

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