Getting started with Amazon Firewall Manager to enable Amazon WAF Classic rules - Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, Amazon Shield Advanced, and Amazon Shield network security director
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Getting started with Amazon Firewall Manager to enable Amazon WAF Classic 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.

You can use Amazon Firewall Manager to enable Amazon WAF rules, Amazon WAF Classic rules, Amazon Shield Advanced protections, and Amazon VPC security groups. The steps for getting set up are slightly different for each:

To use Firewall Manager to enable Amazon WAF Classic rules, perform the following steps in sequence.

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