How to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules

This article explains how to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules or using the Bot Control feature.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Why it's important to mitigate bot traffic to reduce impact on application availability and performance
• How the Challenge action works by presenting a challenge that web browsers can process but bots typically cannot
• Option 1: Implementing Challenge action through a custom rate-limiting rule, with step-by-step instructions
• Option 2: Using the Bot Control managed rule group in AWS WAF for more advanced bot detection and mitigation
• Recommendations for using AWS Firewall Manager to centrally manage WAF rules across multiple accounts