Amazon Firewall Manager prerequisites
This topic shows you how to get ready to administer Amazon Firewall Manager. You use one Firewall Manager administrator account to manage all Firewall Manager security policies for your organization in Amazon Organizations. Except where noted, perform the prerequisite steps using the account that you will use as the Firewall Manager administrator.
Before you use Firewall Manager for the first time, perform the following steps in sequence.
Topics
- Joining and configuring Amazon Organizations for using Firewall Manager
- Creating an Amazon Firewall Manager default administrator account
- Enabling Amazon Config for using Firewall Manager
- Subscribing in the Amazon Marketplace and configuring third-party settings for Firewall Manager third-party policies
- Enabling resource sharing for Network Firewall and DNS Firewall policies with Amazon RAM
- Using Amazon Firewall Manager in Regions that are disabled by default
After you follow these steps, you can configure Firewall Manager to begin protecting your resources. For more information, see Setting up Amazon Firewall Manager Amazon WAF policies.