AWS WAF is a web application firewall. It inspects HTTP and HTTPS requests before they reach your application and allows, blocks, counts or challenges them. You attach a web ACL (web access control list) to a protected resource: a CloudFront distribution, an Application Load Balancer, an API Gateway REST API, an AppSync GraphQL API, a Cognito user pool, an App Runner service or a Verified Access instance.
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