README.md

AWS WAF Security Automation - modular with Terraform

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This provides a modular way to deploy the WAF Reference Architecture (see bellow for image) The key things about this (and comparison with the official Amazon Cloud Formation) are:

• It is ridiculously fast - 6-8x faster than Amazon's Cloud Formation method
• It provides roll-back, undo, recovery, and clean delete abilities - all automatically
• It is modular (with Terraform)! This is extremely important. Any component can be replaced, extended, or integrated with something else. You can very easily re-purpose all of this (or any part) for a different AWS Automation project/purpose.

Getting Started is very simple

First: Edit "amazon-cred-file.tf", and point to your AWS cred file.

Then, for each project/customer's CDN S3 bucket, run:

% ./waf --help
Usage: ./waf <customer> <s3-logs-bucket> <command>

<command> Options:
    create = create a new WAF setup for <customer>
    delete = delete a given <customer> WAF setup

Example: ./waf cerbo s3-bucket-name create
Example: ./waf customer01 s3-bucket-name delete

WAF Reference Architecture:

https://d0.awsstatic.com/aws-answers/answers-images/waf-solution-architecture.png

Documentation on WAF Security Automation:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/aws-waf-security-automations/architecture.html

Amazon WAF 4 Steps to customization:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/aws-waf-security-automations/deployment.html

Amazon's WAF Security Lambdas (latest via GitHub):

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-waf-security-automations

Cloud Formation for WAF Reference Architecture:

• The Cloud Formation "way" has many problems, one of which is that it's a single shot "all or nothing" approach.
• It is ridiculously slow.
• This is mostly to compare to our automated deployment, and make sure everything is the same https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/designer/home?region=us-east-1&templateUrl=https://s3.amazonaws.com/solutions-reference/aws-waf-security-automations/latest/aws-waf-security-automations.template

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