**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 console](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/waf/latest/developerguide/working-with-console.html). 

# Step 2: Create rules
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**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](waf-migrating-from-classic.md).  
**For the latest version of Amazon WAF**, see [Amazon WAF](waf-chapter.md). 

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](classic-get-started-fms-create-rule-group.md). 

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**To create Amazon WAF Classic rules (console)**
+ Create your rules, and then add your conditions to your rules. For more information, see [Creating a rule and adding conditions](classic-web-acl-rules-creating.md). 

You are now ready to go to [Step 3: Create a rule group](classic-get-started-fms-create-rule-group.md).