Step 2: Create rules - Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, and Amazon Shield Advanced
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Step 2: Create rules

Warning

Amazon WAF Classic support will end on September 30, 2025.

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.

In this step, you create rules using Amazon WAF Classic. If you already have Amazon WAF Classic rules that you want to use with Amazon Firewall Manager, skip this step and go to Step 3: Create a rule group.

Note

Use the Amazon WAF Classic console to create your rules.

To create Amazon WAF Classic rules (console)

You are now ready to go to Step 3: Create a rule group.