AWS Firewall Manager

AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that enables us to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across multiple AWS accounts and resources. It helps us to easily enforce security policies and compliance requirements for our organization’s AWS environment. Instead of setting up the policies for each security service in every account, we can set up a security policy at the organizational level that’ll be applicable across the whole organization.

Security services managed by AWS Firewall Manager

AWS Firewall Manager’s policies can be applied to various AWS security services and features, including:

• AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall): We can use Firewall Manager policies to manage AWS WAF rules centrally across multiple accounts on resources such as Application Load Balancer, API Gateway, and CloudFront. This allows us to enforce consistent web application security policies, such as blocking malicious traffic and protecting against common web-based attacks.

• AWS Shield Advanced: Firewall Manager policies can manage AWS Shield Advanced protections for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. We can centrally ...