How to Enable AWS WAF on CloudFront – Bot Protection & Cloud Security (Beginner’s Guide)

🔒 Worried about malicious bots and hackers attacking your site?

In this beginner-friendly AWS tutorial, we'll show you how to enable AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) on your CloudFront distribution, effectively turning it into a secure CloudFront firewall. We’ll activate Bot Protection to block unwanted crawlers and scrapers, and demonstrate what blocked or challenged traffic looks like in the logs. You’ll also learn about AWS WAF’s monitoring mode AWS (a test mode that lets you log threats without blocking them) and get an overview of WAF pricing AWS, so you understand the costs involved in keeping your site secure. In this video, you’ll learn:

1. How to enable AWS WAF on a CloudFront distribution step-by-step.
2. How to activate AWS Bot Protection to block malicious crawlers and scrapers.
3. What AWS WAF’s Monitoring Mode AWS is and how to use it safely (test your rules without impacting traffic).

The basics of AWS WAF pricing (WAF pricing AWS)

Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
01:10 – Enable AWS WAF on CloudFront + Pricing
02:35 - GeoRestriction
02:53 - Diable the Monitoring Mode
03:11 – Turn on Bot Protection
03:53 – WAF Logs
04:16 - Checking Firewall in Action
05:15 – Upcoming Video + Outro
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