**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). 

# Deleting a rule
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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). 

If you want to delete a rule, you need to first remove the rule from the web ACLs that are using it and remove the conditions that are included in the rule.<a name="classic-web-acl-rules-deleting-procedure"></a>

**To delete a rule**

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon WAF console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/wafv2/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/wafv2/). 

   If you see **Switch to Amazon WAF Classic** in the navigation pane, select it.

1. To remove the rule from the web ACLs that are using it, perform the following steps for each of the web ACLs:

   1. In the navigation pane, choose **Web ACLs**.

   1. Choose the name of a web ACL that is using the rule that you want to delete.
**Note**  
If you don't see the web ACL, make sure the Region selection is correct. Web ACLs that protect Amazon CloudFront distributions are in **Global (CloudFront)**.

   1. Choose the **Rules** tab.

   1. Choose **Edit web ACL**.

   1. Choose the **X** to the right of the rule that you want to delete, and then choose **Update**.

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Rules**.

1. Select the name of the rule you want to delete.
**Note**  
If you don't see the rule, make sure the Region selection is correct. Rules that protect Amazon CloudFront distributions are in **Global (CloudFront)**.

1. Choose **Delete**.