Adding and removing conditions in a rule - Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, and Amazon Shield Advanced
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Adding and removing conditions in a rule

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 resources, see Migrating your Amazon WAF Classic resources to Amazon WAF.

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

You can change a rule by adding or removing conditions.

To add or remove conditions in a rule

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

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Rules.

  3. Choose the name of the rule in which you want to add or remove conditions.

  4. Choose Add rule.

  5. To add a condition, choose Add condition and specify the following values:

    When a request does/does not

    If you want Amazon WAF Classic to allow or block requests based on the filters in a condition, for example, web requests that originate from the range of IP addresses 192.0.2.0/24, choose does.

    If you want Amazon WAF Classic to allow or block requests based on the inverse of the filters in a condition, choose does not. For example, if an IP match condition includes the IP address range 192.0.2.0/24 and you want Amazon WAF Classic to allow or block requests that do not come from those IP addresses, choose does not.

    match/originate from

    Choose the type of condition that you want to add to the rule:

    • Cross-site scripting match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the cross-site scripting match condition

    • IP match conditions – choose originate from an IP address in

    • Geo match conditions – choose originate from a geographic location in

    • Size constraint conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the size constraint condition

    • SQL injection match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the SQL injection match condition

    • String match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the string match condition

    • Regular expression match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the regex match condition

    condition name

    Choose the condition that you want to add to the rule. The list displays only conditions of the type that you chose in the preceding step.

  6. To remove a condition, select the X to the right of the condition name

  7. Choose Update.