AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits

The article discusses an enhancement to AWS WAF that allows customers to set lower rate limits for rate-based rules.

Specifically, the article covers:

• AWS WAF now supports setting rate-based rule thresholds as low as 10 requests per evaluation window, down from the previous minimum of 100 requests.
• Lower rate limits allow customers to more effectively detect and respond to traffic spikes targeting sensitive applications and APIs, enabling quicker mitigation of sudden usage increases or malicious activity.
• To use lower rate thresholds, customers can set the 'Rate limit' between 10 and 100 when configuring rate-based rules or edit existing rules.
• There is no additional cost for using this feature, but standard AWS WAF charges still apply.
• The feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions, except a few specified regions.