Using Amazon Firewall Manager in Regions that are disabled by default - Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, Amazon Shield Advanced, and Amazon Shield network security director
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

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 updated console experience.

Using Amazon Firewall Manager in Regions that are disabled by default

To use Firewall Manager in a Region that's disabled by default, you must enable the Region for both the management account of your Amazon organization and the Firewall Manager default administrator account. For information about Regions that are disabled by default and how to enable them, see Managing Amazon Web Services Regions in the Amazon General Reference.

To enable a disabled Region

  • For both the Organizations management account and the Firewall Manager default administrator account, follow the guidance at Enabling a Region in the Amazon General Reference.