Step 1: Complete the prerequisites - Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, Amazon Shield Advanced, and Amazon Shield network security director
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Introducing a new console experience for Amazon WAF

You can now use the updated experience to access Amazon WAF functionality anywhere in the console. For more details, see Working with the updated console experience.

Step 1: Complete the prerequisites

Warning

Amazon WAF Classic is is going through a planned end-of-life process. Refer to your Amazon Health dashboard for the milestones and dates specific to your Region.

Note

This is Amazon WAF Classic documentation. You should only use this version if you created Amazon WAF resources, like rules and web ACLs, in Amazon WAF prior to November 2019, and you have not migrated them over to the latest version yet. To migrate your web ACLs, see Migrating your Amazon WAF Classic resources to Amazon WAF.

For the latest version of Amazon WAF, see Amazon WAF.

There are several mandatory steps to prepare your account for Amazon Firewall Manager. Those steps are described in Amazon Firewall Manager prerequisites. Complete all the prerequisites before proceeding to Step 2: Create rules.