**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). 

# Working with rules
<a name="classic-web-acl-rules"></a>

**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). 

Rules let you precisely target the web requests that you want Amazon WAF Classic to allow or block by specifying the exact conditions that you want Amazon WAF Classic to watch for. For example, Amazon WAF Classic can watch for the IP addresses that requests originate from, the strings that the requests contain and where the strings appear, and whether the requests appear to contain malicious SQL code.

**Topics**
+ [Creating a rule and adding conditions](classic-web-acl-rules-creating.md)
+ [Adding and removing conditions in a rule](classic-web-acl-rules-editing.md)
+ [Deleting a rule](classic-web-acl-rules-deleting.md)
+ [Amazon Web Services Marketplace rule groups](classic-waf-managed-rule-groups.md)