Amazon CloudFront now offers security recommendations to help better protect your CloudFront distributions with AWS WAF based on your configuration, allowing you to easily enable additional security rules tailored to your use cases.

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<p>This article announces security recommendations for Amazon CloudFront distributions. CloudFront now displays additional security rules for your distributions based on your configuration, such as path patterns or origin type, in the CloudFront console. You can select the rules to enable, and CloudFront will automatically add them to your AWS WAF configuration.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>CloudFront now provides security recommendations based on your distribution configuration</li>
<li>For example, if you have a WordPress path pattern, you can enable protections against vulnerabilities specific to WordPress, PHP, and SQL databases</li>
<li>A guided workflow for rate limiting requests to protect against HTTP floods</li>
<li>These recommendations are available in the CloudFront console's Web Application Firewall (WAF) section</li>
<li>Standard AWS WAF pricing applies, and you can estimate the cost using the pricing calculator in the console</li>
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Amazon CloudFront announces security recommendations

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